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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 18 2010 - 15:11:05 CDT

Hi,
  Sadly, this is still on my TODO list. Right after I wrote that message
I got a ton of work dropped in my lap, so it's had to wait...
My next window of opportunity for significant Tachyon work will be
in July after I'm past a few upcoming deadlines.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:13:26PM -0400, Vikas Varshney wrote:
> 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.
> * From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
> Date: Fri Feb 19 2010 - 16:58:46 CST
>
> * Next message: q: "Mutator plugin console"
> * Previous message: BIN ZHANG: "gradient background not rendered"
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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
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> 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
>
>
> I was wondering if there were any updates on this as of now. Hope to hear
> from you soon.
>
> Best Regards,
> Vikas 

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