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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2011 - 13:32:39 CDT

Hi,
  You can use the ColorID coloring scheme along with custom
atom selections to manipulate the colors of the C atoms you want
to color differently, or you could create atom selections for
the C atoms and color them by Molecule, or some similar approach.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:56:03PM -0400, Yamei wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to color five structures in VMD with name. I want to use different colors for element C but in five structure the O and N are colored the same.
> When I change the color of carbon in one structure and the rest structure also changed. Is there a method to do this?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> yamei
>
> Research Fellow
> Harvard Medical School 

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