From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 2010 - 02:38:42 CST

Indeed you can using
$sel set beta {1 2 3 ... }

The last part of this tutorial gives an example of colouring per residue
RMSD
http://community.middlebury.edu/~chem/chemistry/class/bio/ch324/handouts/L6_VMD-tutorial.pdf

2010/12/14 JhonY. I. <yijhon_at_hotmail.com>

> I know that B factor of pdb file can be shown as color in VMD.
> By the way, can I load information on B factor as indepdent data file for a
> certain pdb file?
> Otherwise, is there no way except for making pdb file appropriate to it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Luke
>
>