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From: Joaquim Rui de Castro Rodrigues (joaquim.rodrigues_at_ipleiria.pt)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2014 - 14:52:23 CDT

Hi,

It is even more strange than this... :)

In windows, VMD's default working directory is C:\Program Files\University of Illinois\VMD , which is where VMD/tachyon is trying to write the file. If you go to that directory, via explorer or cmd.exe, you will not see your file, which suggests that the directory is not writable.
However, if you have, e.g, Gimp installed, and try to open the file (menu file->open...), you will see that your file is there! :)

When I use VMD to render in windows , I just browse to my home directory to save file there...

HTH,
Rui Rodrigues

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De: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Em Nome De Semeraro, B David [semeraro_at_illinois.edu]
Enviado: quinta-feira, 27 de Março de 2014 17:07
Para: Massimiliano Porrini
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Assunto: RE: vmd-l: cant find output file from tachyon render.

Hi,

Yes I have. I searched for all .tga files. There were only a handful and none of them were the file I was looking for. Strange behavior.

Thanks,
Dave

From: Massimiliano Porrini [mailto:mozz76_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:52 AM
To: Semeraro, B David
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: cant find output file from tachyon render.

Hi David,
Usually the Tachyon default output file name is "vmdscene.dat.tga"
on Unix-like and Mac OSs.
Not sure about Windows though.

Have you already tried searching for the above file name?
Cheers,

On 27 March 2014 14:50, Semeraro, B David <semeraro_at_illinois.edu<mailto:semeraro_at_illinois.edu>> wrote:
Quick question. I am rendering with vmd and tachyon. When I do so I get the following output:

Info> Rendering current scene to ‘vmdscene.tga’ …
Info> Ambient occlusion rendering enabled.
Info> Tachyon: preprocessing time 0.047000 sec, render time 14.445000 sec.
Info> Executing post-render cmd ‘explorer vmdscene.tga’ …
Info> Rendering complete.

Running this on windows. Where is vmdscene.tga? I search the entire computer and can’t find it. 

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