Hi Jean-Paul,

  There is currently no command to change surface cap color, show and hide caps, change cap style (mesh, filled) or degree of subdivision (effects quality when mapping multiple colors onto cap).  There should be a command for this.  I'll add it to the requested features list.

  The surface cap color can be changed with Python code.  I've attached a Python file capcolor.py for this.  You would use it in a normal Chimera command script with a command like

    runscript capcolor.py lightblue

I also put the script on the Chimera Python scripts web page:

    http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/Scripts

    Tom


 Hello,

Thank you for all your previous answers. I would like to ask you whether there is a way to
change the cap color not only from the Surface capping tool, but the command line as well
and declare it maybe in a script (like for example coloring of the maps and models).
Thanks,

Jean-Paul