It's not a feature. :-) For me, transparency for ladder rungs kinda works -- the rungs are transparent, but not enough. And I only see opaque white when the ladder rungs are facing the key light. You could mitigate the opaque white by moving the model or the key light. If you are seeing different results or if you're interested in being notified after the bug is fixed, please file a bug report. FYI, in the Chimera daily build (available tomorrow), I've eliminated the extra cylinder caps that are exposed when you make the ladder transparent, so you can get a slightly better picture. HTH, Greg On 10/07/2012 07:01 PM, Rebecca Swett wrote:
Hey all, quick question on coloring here. I'm handling a structure that has nucleic acids and protein. I'd like to represent the nucleic acids with the ladder representation and then have them at a lower opacity to bring focus to the protein structure. When I try coloring the ladder with opacity, the ribbons color just fine, but the rungs go opaque white. Is this a bug, or has anyone gotten this to work? I just updated to 1.6.2. Thanks for any help. ~Rebecca
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