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From: Amin Koochaki (aminkoochaki1987_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 14:58:09 CDT

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your help.

I defined the different letter as you proposed and it works now.

Sincerely yours,
Amin

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Vermaas, Joshua <Joshua.Vermaas_at_nrel.gov>
wrote:

> Hi Amin,
>
> For reasons that I'm sure made sense at the time, the color only
> considers the first character of an atom name or an atom type (I'm
> pretty sure its because names in XPLOR are things like CA, COH, and CH,
> which are all different types of carbon). Typically, this means that
> carbon and chlorine will have the same color by default. Coming from
> lammps, I'm reasonably sure the names are based on numbers, so atom name
> "1" and "10", "11", "12", and "13" will all be compressed to "1". Rename
> the higher numbers to different letters. Then you can specify them.
>
> -Josh
>
> On 03/29/2018 05:06 AM, Amin Koochaki wrote:
> > Dear VMD users,
> >
> > I have a lammps trajectory file with 13 types of atom. I want to
> > assign a specific color for any atom type, but there are only 9 atom
> > types in the "Names"section for the category of type.
> >
> >
> > I appreciate if you help me.
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> > Amin
>
>