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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2012 - 13:54:04 CST

Hi,
  Ray tracers can't actually draw lines, they draw very very thin
cylinders instead. So, your best bet, is either to increase the line
thickness (with corresponding effect on the cylinders in Tachyon), or
you could use a "Bonds" representation with a very small radius scaling
factor. Try those and let us know if you still have trouble.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:25:20PM -0500, Fatemesadat Emami wrote:
> Dear vmd users,
> I want to render a superimposed image of a peptide with printable quality
> (the image is on white background-I have overlaid all peptide trajectories
> from a simulation in one snapshot- peptides are all displayed using Line
> with thickness=2 drawing method - and all materials are opaque with
> default settings). For some reason tachyon tool does not show the
> black/blue colors while snapshot tool does (but the image quality with
> snapshot is not so high!). I tried to change the material specifications
> but I could not find a setting that make black and blue (color ID 0)
> appeared on the rendered image (using tachyon).
> Can anyone please give a suggestion?
> Thanks
> Fatima 

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