Hi Melissa, At first I was going to suggest “mcopy” but from your description, it sounds like you have each chain as a separate model. “mcopy” is only for copying settings within one model to other models. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/mcopy.html> You can get the current atom-color RGB definitions or hex codes by Ctrl-click to select an atom (or ribbon segment to select the whole residue, if all of its atoms are the same color), showing the Selection Inspector, Inspect: atom, and then clicking the square color well to get the Color Editor. Then in the Color Editor you can see the hex code starting with # in the “Color name” field. The square in the Model Panel shows the model-level color. Chimera has a coloring hierarchy, where if the atoms are individually assigned colors (such as with your color command), in the 3D display those colors mask the model-level color, which may be different. You can use the modelcolor command, for example “modelcolor #6168c8fb41bc #0.17” or click the color square in the Model Panel to make the Color Editor dialog appear, and then enter the hex code in the “Color name” field of the Color Editor: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/colortool.html> There is only one model-level color per model, as the name suggests, even though the atoms and per-residue ribbon segments might be all different colors. More about color hierarchy: <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/hierarchy.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Sep 2, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Melissa Jurica <mjurica@ucsc.edu> wrote:
I am analyzing a structure containing many individual chains that I have colored. I would like to transfer these colors to another structure of the same complex in a different conformation. Is there a way to extract the colors into a text file so that I can write a command file with the same color designations?
For example:
color #6168c8fb41bc #0.17
Also- How do I get that color to apply to the little square that shows up on the model panel?
Melissa