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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 17:12:18 CDT

Dan,
  Sorry for the delayed reply.
You just had a simple typo. Try "Volume" rather than "volume".
I.e.:
  mol modcolor 0 0 Volume 0

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:05:55PM -0400, Dan Strahs wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I seem to be a little confused about the new color by volume feature in
> version 1.8.3.
>
> If a load a molecule and a volumetric data set:
> CMD1> mol load pdb mol1.pdb dx mol1.dx
>
> and generate a surface using MSMS:
> CMD2> mol modstyle 0 0 msms
>
> then I think I should be able to color the surface by volume:
> CMD3> mol modcolor 0 0 volume
>
> But this returns the error:
> ERROR) Incorrect atom color method command 'volume'
>
> What is a proper example of commands to color the surface by volume?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan Strahs 

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