Hi Heleine Thanks for all documentation. 2D labels make even more difficult to appreciate the dept. An alternative is through jmol/jsmol Sll the best Francesco On Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 5:37 PM Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Francesco, The rendering process with Povray does not include the regular 3D labels, only 2D labels. Usually the 3D labels are not so great for figures anyway, although I understand it is more work to add 2D labels. < https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/2dlabels/2dlabels...
Personally, because of the many limitations of the Chimera-to-Povray process < https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/raytracing.html#limitation...
...I avoid using it. I can get a much better appearance just with Chimera rendering. You can turn on shadows in Chimera, for example, with command:
set shadows
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/set.html#shadows>
... and there are other commands (or you can use the Lighting tool) to increase shininess and get other effects. See "image tips" <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/print.html#tips>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Aug 26, 2022, at 2:33 AM, Francesco Pietra via Chimera-users < chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hello In my hands, with CHIMERA (v 1.15 Linux64 X11), POV-RAY rendering does not reproduce labels, only an interrogation mark in their place.
Thanks for advice
francesco pietra