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From: Robert Johnson (robertjo_at_physics.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue May 29 2012 - 16:11:59 CDT

Actually, I figured out the issue. The problem was that far clipping was
removing part of the scene from my VMD window. However, this was not being
clipped when I rendered it with Tachyon. So that's why the two views didn't
look the same.
Thanks,
Bob

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:08 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Bob,
> Did you get any warning messages in the VMD text console during either
> the QuickSurf calculations or when rendering the Tachyon scene?
> Can you send me both the OpenGL rendering and Tachyon rendering of the
> same scene? It would help me immensely to actually see what you're
> describing. Seeing the images will save me asking you a few tens of
> detailed questions...
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:11:52PM -0400, Robert Johnson wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I have a system in VMD that contains a large quartz substrate. The
> > substrate is about 30nm x 30nm in the xy-plane. I'm using Quick Surf
> to
> > draw this substrate. However, in order to fit the entire surface in
> > memory, I had to define a smaller region of the substrate. Now I'm
> trying
> > to render an image using Tachyon. However, the region of the substrate
> > that is in the background of the image is getting cut off. It seems
> that
> > this portion of the surface is not being included in the Tachyon input
> > file at all. I even tried creating a selection that *only* contained
> the
> > background portion of the substrate and again it was not rendered by
> > Tachyon. Is there something that defines these cutoff distances in
> Tachyon
> > and/or VMD?
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> >
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Bob Johnson, PhD
Lab Coordinator & Lecturer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 S. 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 2C11
Phone: 215-898-5111
http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~robertjo