Dear Chimera users, I am trying to create an image for a publication using Chimera 1.6.1. Whenever I turn on "silhouette" dark spots appear on the screen and on the saved image. They seem totally random but they move along with the structure when rotated. When I zoom on them they look like small "umbrella-shaped" discs. The "show shadows" option is turned off. Does anybody know what are those spots and how to get rid of them? Thank you very much for any help. Regards, Alja Oblak
Sending an example image might help debug this. Tom
Dear Chimera users,
I am trying to create an image for a publication using Chimera 1.6.1. Whenever I turn on "silhouette" dark spots appear on the screen and on the saved image. They seem totally random but they move along with the structure when rotated. When I zoom on them they look like small "umbrella-shaped" discs. The "show shadows" option is turned off. Does anybody know what are those spots and how to get rid of them?
Thank you very much for any help.
Regards, Alja Oblak _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Hi Tom, you're right. Sorry I haven't thought of that myself. Here's an image. Alja ________________________________________ Od: Tom Goddard [goddard@sonic.net] Poslano: 17. avgust 2012 2:01 Za: Alja Oblak Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Zadeva: Re: [Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes Sending an example image might help debug this. Tom
Dear Chimera users,
I am trying to create an image for a publication using Chimera 1.6.1. Whenever I turn on "silhouette" dark spots appear on the screen and on the saved image. They seem totally random but they move along with the structure when rotated. When I zoom on them they look like small "umbrella-shaped" discs. The "show shadows" option is turned off. Does anybody know what are those spots and how to get rid of them?
Thank you very much for any help.
Regards, Alja Oblak _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Hi Alja, Those little ellipses scattered all over are the end-caps of the ribbon helices being drawn in the wrong place. That is a bug. You should use Help / Report a Bug to send us a report that will include your graphics driver version and operating system. I could imagine this bug happening in Chimera daily builds because I have changed the ribbon drawing code. But it is surprising to see it in the Chimera 1.6 production release. If it is in a daily build try the latest daily build. If it is in Chimera 1.6 it is most likely a graphics driver bug. You can try to update your graphics driver or use a different computer to make this image. Tom
Hi Tom,
you're right. Sorry I haven't thought of that myself. Here's an image.
Alja
________________________________________ Od: Tom Goddard Poslano: 17. avgust 2012 2:01 Za: Alja Oblak Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Zadeva: Re: [Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes
Sending an example image might help debug this.
Tom
Dear Chimera users,
I am trying to create an image for a publication using Chimera 1.6.1. Whenever I turn on "silhouette" dark spots appear on the screen and on the saved image. They seem totally random but they move along with the structure when rotated. When I zoom on them they look like small "umbrella-shaped" discs. The "show shadows" option is turned off. Does anybody know what are those spots and how to get rid of them?
Thank you very much for any help.
Regards, Alja Oblak _______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
_______________________________________________ Chimera-users mailing list Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users
Hi Alja, Glad to hear that updating your graphics driver fixed the problem. When the graphics looks wrong on just one computer, it is almost always a graphics driver problem, not a Chimera bug. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes From: Alja Oblak To: Tom Goddard Date: 8/19/12 11:14 PM
Dear Tom,
thank you very much for your help! I have the 1.6.1 production release on my computer. I've updated the graphics driver and silhouettes seem to work fine now. Thanks again.
Best regards,
Alja
------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Od:* Tom Goddard *Poslano:* 17. avgust 2012 19:23 *Za:* Alja Oblak *Cc:* chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu *Zadeva:* Re: [Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes
Hi Alja,
Those little ellipses scattered all over are the end-caps of the ribbon helices being drawn in the wrong place. That is a bug. You should use Help / Report a Bug to send us a report that will include your graphics driver version and operating system. I could imagine this bug happening in Chimera daily builds because I have changed the ribbon drawing code. But it is surprising to see it in the Chimera 1.6 production release. If it is in a daily build try the latest daily build. If it is in Chimera 1.6 it is most likely a graphics driver bug. You can try to update your graphics driver or use a different computer to make this image.
Tom
Hi Tom,
you're right. Sorry I haven't thought of that myself. Here's an image.
Alja
________________________________________ Od: Tom Goddard Poslano: 17. avgust 2012 2:01 Za: Alja Oblak Cc:chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu Zadeva: Re: [Chimera-users] a problem with silhouettes
Sending an example image might help debug this.
Tom
Dear Chimera users,
I am trying to create an image for a publication using Chimera 1.6.1. Whenever I turn on "silhouette" dark spots appear on the screen and on the saved image. They seem totally random but they move along with the structure when rotated. When I zoom on them they look like small "umbrella-shaped" discs. The "show shadows" option is turned off. Does anybody know what are those spots and how to get rid of them?
Thank you very much for any help.
Regards, Alja Oblak _______________________________________________
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