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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2014 - 08:59:44 CDT

Hi,
  I would suggest that you try using the "GlassBubble" material for
your transparent surface. It should case only very weak shadows, but
it will hopefully clearly show the interesting boundaries of the
outer molecular surfaces without obscuring interior cartoon representations.
Give that a try and tell us what you think...

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:48:21PM +0800, Kevin C Chan wrote:
> It gives shadows from the curved surface which confuses with the cartoon
> representations underneath.
> Kevin
> [1]ukevi_at_gmx.hk
> On 13 Oct, 2014, at 14:52, Norman Geist
> <[2]norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de> wrote:
>
> What exactly does *less satisfactory* look like?
>
> Norman Geist.
>
> Von: [3]owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [[4]mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Kevin C Chan
> Gesendet: Montag, 13. Oktober 2014 06:39
> An: VMD Mailing List
> Betreff: vmd-l: Transparency rendering by Tachyon
>
> Dear VMD users and Stone,
>
> I am currently encounter questions about Tachyon image rendering in VMD.
> Refer
> to [5]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/tachyonao/, I am
> very pleased by turning on AO. However whenever a transparent surface is
> present, it is less satisfactory. I have browsed the mailing-list and
> tried options like trans_vmd but it does not help much.
>
> Can anyone share some experience on rendering images involving
> transparency, for instance, a transparent surface of the protein outside
> its cartoon representation?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Kevin
> [6]ukevi_at_gmx.hk
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