Hi Jeff, Tom Goddard is/will be on vacation June 6-27; I will try to help, but you might have to wait until he gets back. As you know, the IMOD reader is an experimental feature developed by Tom (not yet included in the Chimera download). Experimental features page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/experimental.html Normally I get a lot of experience with a tool after it is included with Chimera in order to write documentation. These experimental separately downloaded features, however, have generally only been tested by the person who wrote them and the users who requested them. I can only point you to the experimental feature documentation written by Tom; here's the page for the IMOD reader: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/imod/imod.html From that, it sounds like one should be able to change the color of any IMOD object that is selected. The only issue I see is that (if I understand correctly) the contour lines and the surface meshes are two different things. Perhaps you are coloring the contour lines instead of the surface meshes. Make sure you are really selecting what you want. That is just a wild guess, however. If you have any example file that is not too huge, you could mail it to me if you would like and I could attempt to use this feature myself. As Tom mentioned before, nearly everything Chimera does can be done from Python. For noncoders like me, however, that is a last resort! Best, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html On Jun 6, 2007, at 7:53 PM, William Jeffrey Triffo wrote:
hi,
is there a way to control the color of surfaces generated from IMOD meshes in Chimera?
when I select a surface, and pick a new color in the color editor, I notice that the color of the 'IMOD contours' in the Model Panel changes, but that there is no change in the color of the actual rendered surface.
thanks,
-- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Triffo Auer Group, Donner Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Raphael Group, Bioengineering Department, Rice University Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), Baylor College of Medicine phone (Berkeley): 510-486-7940 fax (Berkeley): 510-486-6488
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