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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2014 - 15:38:51 CDT
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Hi,
The VMD near/far clipping planes only apply to OpenGL renderings, and have
no effect on POV-Ray, Tachyon, or any of the other renderers. In order to
make this more clear, I plan to redesign the "display settings" menu
in a future version of VMD, drawing a box around OpenGL-specific items
such as near/far clipping planes, much like had been done for the
settings that currently only apply to renderings via ray tracers
(e.g. shadows, and ambient occlusion lighting).
Cheers,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 03:52:02PM -0600, Eric Smoll wrote:
> Hello VMD users,
> I have prepared a image of a molecular system in the opengl display using
> scale, translate, and "display nearclip set ###" but when i render it with
> povray using a command like:
> render POV3 out.pov povray +W1920 +H1176 -Iout.pov -Oout.png +D +X +A +FN
> certain molecules are clipped in the povray output that are not clipped in
> the original image I see in the opengl window. Am I doing something wrong?
> Best,
> Eric
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