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From: Schreiner Eduard (eschrein_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 20:58:22 CST

as a workaround one could use snapshots,
but one should have a large display for that.

eddi

On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:50 PM, John Stone wrote:

> 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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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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Eduard Schreiner
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-244-4361
Fax: 217-244-6078
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~eschrein/
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