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From: Ian Stokes-Rees (ijstokes_at_hkl.hms.harvard.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 12:03:30 CDT

On 8/16/10 12:08 PM, John Stone wrote:
> The issue is that the Tachyon code isn't compiled into the shared
> library version of VMD. To get that to work, we would need to teach
> the shared library builds of VMD to link against a shared library
> version of Tachyon, then it should work ok. I'll have to look at this
> and get back to you.

This is a somewhat related question: what is the difference between
"Tachyon" and "Tachyon Internal"? Which should I pick for my
rendering? As best I can tell, neither of them make use of the 4 (or 8)
cores on the machine I'm running VMD on.

Thanks

Ian