Hi Elaine, I think I get what that means, however, how can I calculate the number of frames needed for the entire playRange? The other thing that I'm rather confused about is that when I run the following command: vop morph #1,0,2,6,0,1 playStep 0.1 hideOriginalMaps true interpolateColors true frames 500 modelID #3 I get a morph that would correspond to 1->0 ->2 ->6 ->2 ->0 ->1!!! Why is it showing 2 a second time?! I tried to restart chimera but the issue remains! P.s. is there a way to set the "volume viewer step" for the morph, so I don't have to set it manually in the viewer and then supply the modelID such as what's above? Thank you so much. On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 12:26 PM Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks a lot Elaine. The command line seems to work, but the gui does have nice features! This part is rather confusing
" If the number of frames and step increment are more than needed to reach the playRange bounds (default is the entire range: 0.0,1.0), the morph display will “bounce” back and forth."
So I wonder how to play the morph back and forth similar to the gui, and actually, how to only play the morph in a single direction, but from the gui. I also wonder if there's a quick record option similar to the gui, or do I have to use movie encode? It would also help if I can find the log of how all these gui commands are passed to chimera so I can customize it and use it for the command line interface.
Cheers.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 9:46 AM Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Ahmad, To morph between multiple maps (more than two) you have to use the command "vop morph" instead of the Morph Map tool. For example,
vop morph #1,2,5
... but there are a lot of additional command-line options that you may want to use, see:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/vop.html#morph>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Nov 14, 2020, at 9:06 PM, Ahmad Khalifa <underoath006@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a way to morph multiple volumes into a single movie? I tried morphing two maps first with the hope that I can do another morph between the resulting morph and a third map, but it didn't work. Any suggestions or easy alternatives to join the morphs together?
Thanks.