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From: MW Van der Kamp, School of Chemistry (Marc.VanderKamp_at_bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2008 - 03:09:04 CST

Cheers John!

Using the flag "-normalfixup guess" did indeed solve the problem.
And you were right, my windows VMD version was indeed 1.8.5, not 1.8.6. My
apologies for causing confusion.

Marc

--On 15 January 2008 12:44 -0600 John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> 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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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