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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 15:52:39 CDT

Hi,
  At present there's no way to create additional color categories from
the scripting interfaces in VMD. If you want to override colors, one
way to accomplish this despite the fixed set of color categories is to
use multiple representations to draw the structure, in which case you can
manually assign the color using the ColorID coloring method. Since the
reps are all superimposed in the same space, this is one way to get what
you want.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:25:52PM -0400, Dow Hurst DPHURST wrote:
> Is there a way to create a new color category? I'd like to have something
> similar to the Name category replicated several times but with different
> carbon atom colors. This would allow N, O, H, S to all be the usual colors
> but have residues show up with different carbon atom colors. Very helpful
> for figures in journals and such. I have found that I have two categories
> to work with the default VMD setup of Name and Type. How can I duplicate
> these easily to Name1, Name2, and so on? Thanks,
> Dow
>
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