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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 20:50:03 CST

Michael,
  At present, none of the external renderers are able to display
3-D texture mapped surfaces, so they are rendered as solid white
surfaces. I'm working on adding this capability to Tachyon for
the next version of VMD. I'll let people know when I have a
beta version posted with this capability. I know many people are
waiting for it already...

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:17:23PM -0800, Michael Klein wrote:
> I produced a surface showing electrostatics on a MSMS surface in VMD.
> It looks great in the display but when i render it the surface is
> white. I am using Linux. I tried producing a raster.3d file and render
> that it also comes out white?? Any help in solving this problem is
> greatly appreciated. In my feeble attempt to trouble-shoot this, I
> tested a colored ribbons (it has color in the openGL Display) and that
> also came out white after rendering it with tachyon so it is not
> specific to the surface representation but must be something else.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael G. Klein Ph.D.
> Project Research Scientist
> Structural Genomics
> DOE Joint Genome Institute
> 2800 Mitchell Drive
> Walnut Creek, CA 94598
> Phone: (925) 927-2556
> MGKlein_at_lbl.gov 

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