[Chimera-users] POVray shininess

Edward Egelman wrote:

Hi, The new POV rendering is very nice, but suffers from one problem that I do not see how to fix. Is there any way to control the surface properties (reflectivity, "shininess", etc.)? I only see the standard brightness and transparency for the "save as" feature. Regards, Ed Hi Ed,

You can control the shininess of surfaces in Chimera using menu entry Tools / Viewing Controls / Shininess. The shininess you set is exported to POVray when you save a raytraced image. The POVray appearance doesn't exactly match the Chimera graphics window appearance so you may need some trial-and-error experimentation to get the desired shininess in the POVray output. Tom