I wasn’t able to reproduce this problem.  I just tested in Chimera 1.10.2 on 3 related proteins, with commands:

open 2mnr

open 1muc

open 4enl

delete :.b

mm #0 #1

mm #0 #2

tile

surf

… then invoking Coulombic Surface Coloring, just clicking Apply because all three surfaces were already chosen in the dialog. Image of the result attached (after applying publication preset 1).   

I can’t think of any reason your system would behave differently, and all I can say is to make sure all the surfaces are chosen in the dialog.  However, if that still doesn’t work you can always try submitting a bug report (menu: Help… Report a Bug) and attach the session so we could try to reproduce it.

Best,

Elaine

On May 13, 2016, at 11:10 AM, zona cat <azrucu@yahoo.com> wrote:

Good afternoon,

My name is Daniel Heller, and I am working with Helen Berman at Rutgers University on a PDB project.  We are trying to analyze multiple DNA binding proteins simultaneously (via matchmaker) and looking to visualize the surface electrostatic potential of each structure as a tiled picture. We are deleting the nucleotide chains for all proteins when complexed with DNA.  However, I am only able to get the surface electrostatic coloring for one structure (the reference structure), subsequent structures will not apply the columbic coloring after i hit apply, they just maintain the monotone default surface structure .  Could you please help me with this issue.

Thank you very much,
Dan