From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2013 - 11:10:33 CDT

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Dawid das <addiw7_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear vmd experts,
>
> I was looking for help on making movies in vmd but I couldn't find anything.
> What I have is 500 frames from my Tinker MD simulation. Now, I want to make
> a movie/get a trajectory of my system. Firstly, is it possible at all to do
> this with those original xyz Tinker files?
> I struggle with loading all these frames. I tried new mol name.* type
> tinker, but it seems that * does not work as usual.

that would probably not be what you want anyway. since typical program
won't concatenate the files into a single data set as you need to
have.

> I read those:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/vmd/tutorial-html/node3.html and
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/vmd-ref/imgmv/imgmv-tutorial.pdf
> but like I said I didn't find it helpful.
>
> Thank you for help.

you would need a little Tcl scripting. something like this (untested):

set first 1
foreach f [glob name.*] {
    if {$first} {
        set first 0
        mol new $f type tinker waitfor all
    } else {
        mol addfile $f type tinker waitfor all
    }
}

axel.

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.