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From: Vikas Varshney (vv0210_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 15:13:26 CDT

Dear John, other Users,
I tried to get a movie generated with gradient backgound using (Tychon or
Internal Tychon). But I am getting white background. I looked at the
archieves and found there was little discussion on Feb 19th of this year
about this, specifically the following.

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   From: John Stone
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   Bin,
     At present, there's not currently a way to get an analogous
   result from Tachyon or any of the other external renderers. I plan
   to add this feature to Tachyon in an upcoming revision however, so that
   it'll work correctly in that case at least. I'll have a new version of
   VMD and Tachyon that you can test in a week or so if all goes well.

   Cheers,
     John Stone
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   On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:50:59PM -0800, BIN ZHANG wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I just found that the gradient background is not rendered properly
> using Tachyon. It only gives me a white background instead. I'm
> working on a Mac OSX and this happens in both VMD 1.8.6 and 1.8.7. Is
> there any work around for this? Are special settings required to do
> this properly?
>
> Thanks,
> Bin
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I was wondering if there were any updates on this as of now. Hope to hear
from you soon.

Best Regards,
Vikas