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From: Joshua D. Moore (joshuadmoore_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2012 - 15:49:15 CDT

Just installed VMD 1.9.1 since I saw that everyone should upgrade. It
also doesn't seem to work with rendering text in POV-Ray.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Joshua D. Moore <joshuadmoore_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple weeks ago I asked about displaying text in VMD using bash
> shell commands. Axel replied that I should use the 'exec' command and
> this works. Thank you Axel.
>
> However, now I am having trouble getting it to display in PovRay when
> rendering the image.
>
> Here is a snippet of my script
>
> while {$frame <=$lastframe} {
> draw delete all
> draw color black
> set time [exec awk NR==$frame time.txt]
> echo "Time = $time ps"
> draw text "-100 80 -50" "Time = $time ps" size 2
> render POV3 $frame.pov
> animate goto $frame
> incr frame
> }
>
> In the VMD development page
> (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.9/devel.html), I saw this
> "Polished up the text rendering implementations for Tachyon,
> LibTachyon, Raster3D, and POV-Ray" for Feb. 10, 2011. I am using the
> March 14, 2011 Final release of VMD 1.9.
>
> Can POV-Ray render text and I'm doing something wrong? I also can't
> see text in the *pov file that I can tell or when I just write plain
> text without any variables.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Josh