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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2010 - 14:26:11 CDT

Stefan,
  Do you get any errors or warning messages from POV-Ray during rendering?
Have you tried rendering the same scene using VMD 1.8.7?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:10:34PM -0700, Stefan Oliver wrote:
> Dear VMD-L Mailing List,
>
> Unusually I'm having a little trouble rendering some images from files
> created by VMD. I'm using VMD 1.8.6 and POV-ray 3.62. The images I'm
> attempting to render are two molecules with a combination of New Ribbon and
> VDW representations. The curious, and frustrating, thing is that if I
> render the image in one orientation the VDW representations are correctly
> rendered. However, when the molecule is rotated about the X axis by 90
> degrees (the top of the molecule is now closest to the screen) the New
> Ribbon is rendered but annoyingly the VDW representations are not. I've
> adjusted the Near Clip in the Display Settings but this does not help.
> Curiously, when I generate the image files directly from VMD all of the
> representations are present.
>
> I've done a basic search on the topic but couldn't find anything in the
> list. What am I doing incorrectly?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>
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