It would be useful to be able set separate surface properties for the interior of opaque closed surfaces that have been made visible by the clipping planes set in Per-Model-Clipping. These are normally backface polygons. This could be complicated to implement in a general way. In my opinion, that's probably not necessary. The only feature that I really pine for is the ability to make the interior surface darker/lighter than the exterior surface. Perhaps a slider could be added to Per-Model-Clipping tool that allows the user to make the backface polygons darker or lighter than the regular polygons. (Perhaps the default should be about 25% darker. That would look pretty and I hope it would be easy to add.) Another feature that would be useful is the ability to make the closed surfaces look solid so that when you cut into them, instead of seeing the interior, a polygon face is added to close the surface and make it look like a solid object. (For example, lighter-colored surfaces in the cartoon: http://www.biochem.mpg.de/hartl/mhartl/index.html I realize these features should be low on the priority list. Maybee a quicky feature to implement when you get board working on the slow, difficult, useful stuff. Cheers! Andrew On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Andrew Jewett wrote:
Hi. Please forgive me for sending this message twice. In the first version, I forgot to include a subject line, so I'm sending it again. --------------- On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Thomas Goddard wrote:
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When using the Per-Model-Clipping tool and selecting which model to apply the clipping to, there should be an option "All Models", and it should be the default option.
Without this feature, some unintended results can happen. Suppose the user generates a surface either with MSMS or multiscale. If the user then uses the menu to select Tools->Graphics->Per-Model-Clipping The default model is the one with the atoms and bonds, not the surface model. When the user moves the clipping plane it will seem like nothing is hapenning.
The user has to be quite attentive to realize that they have to select the surface model from the list. It would be better to have an "all models" option that is the default.
Thanks Cheers!
Andrew