On Dec 31, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> wrote:
Currently there is no command to set background transparency. We should add a "set backgroundTransparency true|false" command to do this so you can put it in a script. It will call the setBackgroundOpacity() routine in chimera/printer.py. Until that is added you could use a little Python script transpbg.py:
from chimera import printer printer.setBackgroundOpacity(True)
and call it from your movie command script with "open transpbg.py"
I have added this command and it will be in tonight's build, except that it is called "set bgTransparency" (instead of "set backgroundTransparency"), similar to "set bgColor". --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu