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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 27 2012 - 15:39:03 CST

Hi,
  Try computing the MSMS surface inside of VMD, and that should cure
your problem. Surfaces loaded from external files are treated as
raw graphics and are not modifiable (e.g. color by volume) like
VMD's internal representations are, so in order to color by volume,
you should have VMD perform the MSMS computation internally.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:52:12PM +0100, Sergio Decherchi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I would like to colour with the potential (from DelPhi) the surface of
> an externally loaded msms file.
> I tried first by loading the msms file and the potential file
> separately; then I tried by embedding into the msms surface
> the potential but in both cases I was not able to see the potential on
> the surface by using volume colouring.
> Also I was not able to make transparent the externally loaded msms surface.
> Any suggestion?
> Thanks,
> sd 

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