From: Shomesankar Bhunia (rightclickatrighttime_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2013 - 07:04:45 CST

Dear John,
Thank you for the help.

regards shome

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:09 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> You can either use the VMD "display resize" command to set the
> resolution when the .dat files are generated initially, or you can
> run the standalone Tachyon on an existing .dat file, and add the
> "-res" command line parameter to override the resolution, e.g.:
> tachyon [other parms] -res 1920 1080
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:27:10AM +0530, Shomesankar Bhunia wrote:
> > Dear all
> > I want to create a high resolution movie using VMD movie maker. I am
> using
> > the tachyon ray tracer and ppm to mpeg conversion for movie making.
> While
> > performing above I am getting *.dat files with resolution of 959*716.
> > From several posts I came to know to just change the resolution to a
> > higher value to get better resolution images. I have 100 *.dat files
> so
> > manually changing the value is problematic. Please suggest a way to
> > create *,dat files with high resolution value. Thanks in advance.
> > Regards
> > Shome.
>
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