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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2008 - 12:44:31 CST

Marc,
  Try running Tachyon with the added flag: "-normalfixup guess" and
let me know if you still encounter this problem. I'm actually surprised
that you got this behavior with VMD 1.8.6 and Tachyon 0.98, this should
only occur when using older versions of VMD (e.g. 1.8.5 or older)
with the newer Tachyon, or newer versions of VMD with the older Tachyon.
Can you double check that the version numbers you mention are correct?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:03:27AM +0000, MW Van der Kamp, School of Chemistry wrote:
> Dear VMD users,
>
> I try to create a picture using tachyon.
> First, I render a picture with VMD 1.8.6 for Windows. The BMP picture
> generated there looks fine.
> But then I try to get different pictures (including shading etc.) with
> tachyon using the VMD generated "plot.dat" file on a linux cluster, where I
> use tachyon_LINUXAMD64, version 0.98.
> No matter which flags I use (also tried with/without -trans_vmd), the parts
> of the structure displayed using NewCartoon show up completely black,
> whereas the other parts show up fine.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what can be going on and how to fix it?
>
> Many thanks,
> Marc
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Marc van der Kamp, PhD-student
> School of Chemistry, Research group of Dr. Adrian Mulholland
> University of Bristol
> E-mail: Marc.vanderKamp_at_bristol.ac.uk
> 

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