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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2010 - 09:49:28 CDT

Hi,
  It sounds like you are loading the "samples" one at a time and
rendering them each by hand, yes? If so, that's the reason that
VMD keeps resizing things. If you load all of the "samples" into
separate molecules first, and then manipulate the scene to get it
the way you want it, VMD will not subsequently resize it.
To make renderings of each individual sample, you can toggle the different
molecules on and off by double-clicking the "D" in their respective
status lines in the molecule browser within the main VMD window, which
toggles them to be displayed or hidden.
The automatic resizing VMD does should only occur when you first load
the structure files, so you should be able to make your renderings
this way.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:32:14PM +0200, Ramasamy, Ellankavi wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am using VMD for Molecular Dynamics simulations. I have a problem rendering the scenes.
>
> I perform a coating process. The size of the sample is small to start with and grows with time.
> When I render each time step, VMD automatically resizes the size of the sample to fit the screen.
> And when I make an animated gif with these rendered images, the size of the sample changes
> abruptly for every scene, not producing a series of images showing a smooth increase in the size
> of the sample.
>
> I would like to know if there is any option in VMD where I could fix the size of the screen for every
> time step during the rendering process so that the small samples remain small and are not fit to the
> screen size.
>
> Thank you
>
> Warm regards,
> Ellankavi 

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