Hi Corey, Pipes and planks depictions don’t update when the molecule changes shape. It is also slow to compute so it wouldn’t work interactively. But if you want to make a movie it can be done with some trickery. The tricky part is that there is no command to make the pipes and planks depiction. But a few lines of Python (file updatepp.py attached) can update the pipes and planks. So after creating the morph and the initial pipes and planks I can record a movie with the following command sequence: movie record super 3 ; coordset #2 0,100 ; perframe "open /Users/goddard/ucsf/chimera/libs/PipesAndPlanks/updatepp.py" frames 100 ; wait 100 ; movie encode ~/Desktop/planks.mp4 Tom

On Aug 6, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Corey Dambacher wrote:

Hi Tom,

Gabe lander suggested I email you regarding morph maps between two models:

Is there a way to do a morph using pipes and planks? I have a couple of models I would like to morph, and this works very well when in ribbon, but it doesn't seem to work when I have the pipes and planks depiction...

Thanks for your time and consideration,

Corey