Hi Laura, What is the 3D program? If you're using Blender, here's the answer I found a little while ago: http://blendersushi.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/pipeline-import-vertex-color-sol... FWIW, Darrell Darrell Hurt, Ph.D. Section Head, Computational Biology Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62B, MSC 2135 Bethesda, MD 20892-2135 Office 301-402-0095 Mobile 301-758-3559 http://bioinformatics.niaid.nih.gov (Within NIH) http://exon.niaid.nih.gov (Public) Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. From: Laura Lynn Gonzalez <laurelin@gmail.com<mailto:laurelin@gmail.com>> Date: Monday, October 8, 2012 1:54 PM To: "chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>" <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>> Subject: [Chimera-users] surface texture export Hi. Is there any way to export Coloumbic colored surfaces as JPG textures when you export geometry (obj, vrml, etc)? Or get the 3D texture data in some other format? I'm trying to import my Coulombic-colored protein into a 3D program. -Laura Lynn

Hi Laura Lynn, If you use Chimera menu entry File / Export Scene... and choose file type VRML then the exported VRML file will contain per-vertex Coulombic coloring. I know this because I can read that VRML file back into Chimera and it shows the correct red, white and blue colors. I'm not sure whether it will be possible to get that into the "3D program" you want to use the surface in. I'm not sure what it means to export a JPG texture. To apply such a texture you would need texture coordinates on the surface. Chimera does not export textures or texture coordinates. Tom

Hi. Is there any way to export Coloumbic colored surfaces as JPG textures when you export geometry (obj, vrml, etc)? Or get the 3D texture data in some other format? I'm trying to import my Coulombic-colored protein into a 3D program.

-Laura Lynn

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