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From: Come On (comeonsos_at_googlemail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 04:20:15 CDT

Hi, all,

First, thanks to Jone Stone's answer, and now I have got another two
question in regarding to make the movie:
1) My system is protein in water, I want to represent the protein using CPK
while the waters using points, I can do that by using creating rep. for a
.pdb file, what I am asking is that how can I do that for a dl_poly HISTORY
file, so that the movie i made will look much clear?

2) I tried to use the movie maker for just export images, but can it
captures only specified part of the screen instead of the whole screen?

Thank you.
Rachel

On 6/6/06, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
> 1) For "ball and stick" use the "CPK" drawing method in the graphical
> representations menu. You may also like the "Licorice" mode.
>
> 2) The VMD movie maker currently only knows how to automatically drive
> the VideoMach engine for making movies on Windows fully automatically.
> On Unix machines (including MacOS X), the movie maker uses NetPBM, and
> ImageMagick and other tools, but since these aren't available on
> Windows,
> we use VideoMach. The recent version of the movie maker plugin now
> allows
> you to just export a collection of images (no movie file per se), so
> that you can use your favorite movie making tool (including ones that
> aren't scriptable and require user interaction). That's probably the
> best
> way to go if you want to use a specific movie making package other than
> VideoMach.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:11:55PM +0100, Come On wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I want to make a movie from the HISTORY file generated by dl_poly, there
> are
> > two things I would like to ask:
> >
> > 1) can i view the atoms in the form of ball and stick ( which I can't
> find
> > from the display menu)?
> >
> > 2) is there any other softwares supported by VMD except the Videomach,
> for
> > example can i windows movie maker to do that?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > Best,
> > Rachel
>
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