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From: Vermaas, Joshua (Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 14:10:24 CDT

Hi Geng,

It sounds like what you want to do it control the color on a representation basis. If you modify the colorscale range for each representation (its under the trajectory tab of the graphical representations window, not the draw style tab), the colors should be consistent for each representation. Then it looks like you would set the same minimum and maximum scale values in the color scale bar extension, and be happy.

-Josh

On 06/29/2017 12:53 PM, Geng wrote:

Hello, everyone,
(I have sent this email yesterday, but I don't see it on the list. The older email may be already filtered out by system, so I have re-send this email again)
I encounter a problem for generating color bar in VMD.(using the tools in the extenstion->visualization->color scale bar)
The cluster is imported by LAMMPS dump format, and atoms have charge attribute. So I want to color the atoms according to their charges. Two different modes are available in VMD:
1) In the auto mode, the color bar shows the right relation between colors and charges. But there is no way to adjust the maximum and minimum values in the color bar axis. So If I have different structures, they will have inconsistent color bar legends.
2) If I turn off the auto mode, I can adjust the maximum value and minimum value, but the colors on the atoms are not altered accordingly. I.E. the color bar legend is wrong and scales on color bar axis is arbitrary.
So How I can I make sure the color on atoms are changed accordingly when I modify the range of values in the color bar axis?
Thank you very much!
Geng