Hi Oliver,

  The animation timeline has limited capabilities and is useful for very simple movies.  To make any fancier movie you use a command script and movie command.  The perframe command can vary a map threshold level

perframe "vol #0 level .1 level $1" range .1,.02 frames 100

 as illustrated on the movie command examples page

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/movie-howto-mar2012/movie_examples.html

  Tom



On Apr 1, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any way to alter the density level in a gradual fashion during an animation?

I would like to first show the overall envelope of a cryoEM map, and then smoothly change to a higher contour level where I can see helices etc.

Many other parameters, such as the presence of a MSMS surface or the position of a clipping plane, seem to automatically gradually transition between two key frames of an animation, but density level doesn’t seem to do so.

Oliver.
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