Hi Mike, You can change the color of the selection outline in the Preferences (Favorites... Preferences, switch to category: Background, change "selection highlight color"). There is no user interface way to change the thickness of the selection outline. Maybe one of the others can suggest where to edit the code. Alternatively, you could use a separate image processing program to thicken the outline after saving the image from Chimera. A few years ago I ran into the same issue making a figure for a paper. I wanted to show the selection outline, but because the image was high resolution and I was supersampling, it turned out very thin. I no longer remember exactly what I did, but I think there was some capability in Photoshop to make the outline thicker (something to do with "trace" perhaps?). It followed the existing line automatically, I didn't have to hand-draw it. Other programs might have a similar feature. I hope this helps, 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 Jul 10, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Michael DiMattia wrote:
Hi all,
I have a quick question regarding a figure I am trying to make. I have a multi-chain protein loaded with each subunit surface- rendered individually. We wanted to find a way to highlight the outline of one of the subunits in the 3d surface rendering and selecting the surface of the chain works really well for this in Chimera. The familiar green outline highlights the subunit well, even though I realize this is probably not the primary purpose for such highlighting. I imagine it is just to let the user know what is selected.
But if i were to use the selection highlighting to show such an outline in a figure, i was wondering if it is possible to change the color of the selection outline from green to any other color or if it is possible to change the width of the outline. I realize it's a long shot, but thought I'd ask anyway in case anyone has tried this before.
Many thanks
Mike DiMattia