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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 01:18:00 CDT

Dallas,
  With VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS enabled, you'll be missing these features,
though whether you'd actually have them otherwise is still very
video card-specific:
  - Stereo
  - Multisample antialiasing
  - 3-D texturing (color by volume)
  - GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) advanced shaders
    (ray traced spheres, alpha-blended transparency, phong shading, etc)
  - Various other OpenGL features that are used to make VMD
    draw molecules faster...

Dallas, are you using ATI or NVidia? I seem to remember you had an
ATI laptop chipset or something? Just trying to remember what your
specific case is.
 
  John

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:13:20PM +1000, Dallas B. Warren wrote:
> Subject says it all :-)
>
> Just wondering what features are turned off etc. What will be missing
> from renderings etc.
>
> Catch ya,
>
> Dr. Dallas Warren
> Lecturer
> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
> 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
> dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
> +61 3 9903 9073
> ---------------------------------
> When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble
> a nail. 

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