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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2008 - 13:05:52 CDT

Tim,
  One more thing: if the coloring problem your having is unrelated
to having reps overlapping each other, send me an example image from
snapshot and one from Tachyon so I can see precisely what your problem is.

  John

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:02:04PM -0500, John Stone wrote:
>
> Hi,
> If you have multiple overlapping representations, you may get different
> results when rendering using an external renderer than when rendering with
> OpenGL. In order to avoid this problem, either make the CPK sphere radii
> slightly smaller/larger for the different reps, or make sure to set
> appropriate atom selections so your reps don't overlap each other.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:48:40PM +0100, Tim Carpenter wrote:
> > I have been rendering some clusters of Coarse Grain proteins using Tachyon.
> > I have displayed multiple frames (10) and have coloured them according to
> > timestep. To get a reasonable backbone trace i have used dynamics bonds, and
> > also CPK representations on the CA-particles. On the screen these appear to
> > be the same colour, however when this is rendered using Tachyon, or
> > TachyonInternal the CPK spheres adopt a different colour. This also occurs
> > when using VDW spheres or beads. It also occurs when using the CPK spheres
> > on their own.
> > Any ideas?
>
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078