It so happens that I implemented this on Friday at the behest of another user who was also trying to make a movie! So as a stopgap measure until our next release, I've made it available on the Experimental Features page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/experimental/experimental.html Let me know if you have any problems. --Eric On May 7, 2006, at 12:54 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia wrote:

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Hi chimerics,

I'm not very familiar (yet) to python scripting in chimera, so I am trying to prepare a movie using just line commands in a file. I would like to gradually increase the transparency of a model's surface that has been colored in "rainbow by residue" style. My question is then: is there a way to control the overall transparency of a surface from the command line? I could resort to colordef commands at every step, but this would make things very hard with the rainbow coloring...

Thanks a lot!

Miguel ( trying to learn more python in the meantime ;) ) - -- Miguel Ortiz Lombardía Centro de Investigaciones Oncológicas C/ Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid, Spain Tel. +34 912 246 900 Fax. +34 912 246 976 e-mail: molatwork@yahoo.es - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Et ainsi ne pouvant faire que ce qui est juste fût fort, on a fait que ce qui est fort fût juste. Blaise Pascal, Pensées -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)

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