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From: Cesar Luis Avila (cavila_at_fbqf.unt.edu.ar)
Date: Thu May 24 2007 - 18:02:43 CDT

I would like to render a picture in a remote server with vmd using GLSL
capabilities. I connect to the server using ssh, and launch the script using

vmd -dispdev text < renderpicture.tcl > logfile

Within the script I have a line
display rendermode GLSL
render snapshot picture.tga

but in the log file I see
ERROR) Illegal rendering mode: GLSL
Info) Rendering current scene to 'picture.tga' ...
Info) Rendering complete.

And the picture file is empty.

Since there is no display device it sounds logical that there is no
picture to render. Is there a way to overcome this?