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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 23:43:17 CST

Hi,
  I am just catching up on this string of emails.
Under normal conditions, Tachyon renders one scene file at a time.
You can either compile Tachyon yourself, or you can use the version
that is provided with VMD. If you are using the movie maker plugin
with VMD, you should be able to have it run Tachyon for you, so that
the movie image frames are generated automatically with no manual
intervention or other scripting. The standard builds of Tachyon
do not include PNG support, so to render .png files, you would need
to compile Tachyon from source code and enable this optional feature.

If you still have questions, I will need more specific details on what
you have done, which Tachyon binary you are trying to run, etc.
In the text you sent below, you show the commands you tried to run
but not the error message(s) you have gotten, or any output generated
by your attempts, which makes it somewhat difficult to guess what
you are doing wrong. If you want any further assistance, we need you
to provide us with detailed logs of not only the commands you
attempted to run, but also the output you received along with any
error messages, etc.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:53:54PM +0900, Truc Kim wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> Actually, I have 71 .dat files in the same directory containing Tachyon.
> The command form I used ('./tachyon -format PNG frame01.dat -o frame02.png
> > frame01.out') is just an example to showed you what I have tried. The
> one I executed is 'tachyon monomer.0000.dat -o monomer.0071.tga >
> monomer.0000.out', (monomer.0000.dat is output of Movie Maker) but I did
> not obtained anything besides monomer.0071.tga.
> Do I misunderstand the example? Since there is no instruction about this
> case in Tachyon manual, please let me know how to deal with it if there
> are 71 files need to be rendered.
> Thank you. 

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