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From: Shomesankar Bhunia (rightclickatrighttime_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2013 - 08:53:52 CST

Dear John,
I am sorry for not mentioning movie maker. Thank you for the help.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:19 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> You didn't mention using the movie maker before. The movie
> maker is designed to do what it does, and you can't really
> override the behavior that renders the images as it runs.
> What you could do, is to set the movie maker to use the
> "Snapshot" renderer and use a user-defined movie callback, or
> a trace on the movie frame index, and within your callback procedure
> you could use "rander Tachyon filname.$framenumber.dat" or
> something similar to generate the .dat files. You would also get
> images from the Snapshot renderings, but you could simply delete
> those later. You can also write your own movie generation script
> pretty easily, there are examples in the VMD script library.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:13:55PM +0530, Shomesankar Bhunia wrote:
> > Dear John,
> > Thanks for your reply. When I am running movie maker its generating
> *dat
> > and image files also. But I need generation of *dat files only (for
> each
> > frame of the trajectory) duing movie making. I have tried a lot but
> still
> > its generating image files with *dat files. Thank you again.
> > regards shome
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:02 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > If you edit the VMD "render command" text so it just says
> > "true" that will prevent Tachyon from being run on the
> > .dat file that you have generated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:34:40PM +0530, Shomesankar Bhunia wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > I am using tachyon ray tracer in VMD 1.9. I am using external
> > tachyon that
> > > is generating both *.dat and image file. I only want the
> generation
> > of
> > > *.dat file without the generation of image file.Thanks in
> advance.
> > > Regards
> > > Shome
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>
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> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
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