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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 23 2001 - 22:53:26 CST
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Dear VMD-L,
I'm happy to announce that VMD 1.7.1 has been released,
and can be downloaded from the VMD web site:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.7.1
VMD 1.7.1 includes many new improvements, the most notable of
which are listed below. Please feel free to email us if you
have any questions. Several of the new features require the use
of Tcl scripts and/or "plugins", so if you have questions about
this let us know.
Thanks,
John Stone
vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
What's new in VMD 1.7.1?
------------------------
New Features
o New volume rendering features including isosurface display,
volume slicing with support for hardware accelerated 3-D
texture mapping, and a Tcl volume data loader interface.
o Support for scanline-interleaved stereoscopic rendering for
hardware such as the Eye3D stereo glasses and decoders.
These work on Linux, Windows, and most any other platform with
VGA and USB connectors, and they don't require any special software
in order to work with VMD.
o First inclusion of VMD plugin architecture. Initially used
to provide the structure building capabilities of psfgen
in VMD.
o Added "mol selupdate" and "$sel update" commands. "mol selupdate" '
causes automatic updates of the selection for the specified
representation.
o The Windows version of VMD can now be run from a command line
with the use of the Windows "start" command, i.e. something like
"start c:\vmd\vmd.exe -nt -e myscript.vmd" could be used to
start VMD if it were installed in directory c:\vmd.
General Improvements and Bug Fixes
o Includes a much faster version of Stride for secondary structure
calculation.
o Includes new version of the Tachyon ray tracer, 0.93.4.
o Multi-level OpenGL stipple-based "screen door" transparency. Now
implements varying levels of transparency.
o Improved support for WireGL cluster-based rendering and tiled display
walls.
o The IMD code now closes down active socket connections more
carefully, allowing the kernel to complete any in-progress
write operations before closing the socket.
o POV-Ray scene export improved with new camera parameters and
support for orthographic views, shadow control, and matched
perspective camera views.
o Tachyon scene export improved with new camera parameters for
matched perspective views with VMD.
o Raster3D scene export improved with new camera parameters for
matched perspective views with VMD.
o The Windows version of VMD now reads "vmd.rc" for startup instead
of ".vmdrc". This makes it much easier to edit the startup files
on Windows.
o Replaced DNA example molecule with a better one.
o H-bonds shown in the H-bond rep are now pickable.
o Added code to read the unit cell data from Charmm trajectory files.
o Improved robustness and error handling when reading Raster3D
scene files. Fixed Raster3D file reading crash.
o The "delete" option for atom selections no longer leaks memory
in the case when it is used within a Tcl loop.
o Eliminated atom selection and Tcl related memory leaks
Fixed Bugs and PRs: 107, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178
User Interface Changes
o Users can select either FLTK or Tk file browsers according to
their personal preference. Some people prefer the Windows-like
function of the Tk browsers, while others like the filename
completion of the FLTK file browser. This is configured by setting
the VMDFILECHOOSER environment variable. The default browser for
Windows is the Tk browser, for Unix systems the FLTK browser is
the default.
o Reverted behavior of the edit form old "-1" index use.
User Documentation Updates
o New manual section for the sequence window
o Updated sections regarding .vmdrc since Windows now uses vmd.rc instead.
o Updated the betacolor example script included in the docs for
new versions of VMD.
o Updated the animation scripts in the script library for new
versions of VMD.
o Improved index entries pertaining to lighting and shading.
README for VMD; last modified December 23, 2001 by John Stone
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