Thanks Elaine,

I was able to get the effect by saving a separate image of just the ligand alone and a transparent background. I used different lighting/texture settings for the ligand only image. Then in photoshop I manually superimposed the brighter and shinier ligand on top of my original image. It worked out well, but requires a few steps to see what you get.

Oliver

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Hi Oliver,
Sorry, the lighting and shininess settings are global and always apply to all models. In the Lighting dialog (in menu under Tools… Viewing Controls), you can drag the lights around to interactively adjust their directions, but at least in my experience trying to spotlight some area doesn’t help much because other things in the vicinity will be just as shiny.

It depends on what you’re showing, but you might try making everything except the ligand transparent. E.g. something like

open 2gbp
show ligand
rep sphere ligand
trans 65 ~ ligand

… or if you wanted white background, then

back solid white

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Dec 6, 2016, at 6:31 AM, Oliver Grant <olivercgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,
Is it possible to use the lighting command and have it apply only to particular models? I'd like my ligand to "pop" out by having a light that only shines on it, and not the protein.
Oliver