From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 11:55:22 CST

hi alex,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Alex Angerhofer <alex_at_chem.ufl.edu> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I just subscribed and would like to pose a question. If this has already
> been answered before, please point me to a place where I can find it in the
> list archives or elsewhere on the vmd web site.

a link to the mailing list archives is right where the
instructions to subscribe are posted.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/

> What is the best opensource rendering (best = highest resolution) out there
> for vmd? I have had little success with postscript or bitmap so far. I am
> running vmd both on windows 7 and on linux.

using an external renderer (e.g. one of the supported ray tracing
software packages) *any* resolution that you can fit into the
memory of your machine(s) is possible. have a look at the
corresponding section of the VMD user's guide.

that being said, it appears to me, that you actually mean
highest picture quality and there you should probably first
try using the Tachyon ray tracer that is already bundled
with VMD. a mini-tutorial for particularly high quality images
with ambient occlusion lighting is here:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/tachyonao/

cheers,
    axel.

> Thank you very much for any helpful pointers.
>
> Best regards, Alex.
>
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> Department of Chemistry
> The University of Florida
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>
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College of Science and Technology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.