
Dear Chimera-users and team, I tried to generate a POV-Ray image making use of mesh style surface by
surfrepr mesh
When I go to 'save image' with activated POV-Ray option, I get the attached error message. I tried several versions ('stable' and daily build, linux and windows) and different molecules but it doesn't work out. Isn't it possible to get raytraced mesh-surface pictures in chimera or do I miss anything? Thanks in advance and best regards Sebastian Kruggel -- Sebastian Kruggel Institut für Pharmazie Bundesstr. 45 | Raum 112 (406) D 20146 Hamburg Tel +49 (0)40 42838-3626 (-3484) kruggel@chemie.uni-hamburg.de Surface ANP_in_1j1bB, category main, probe radius 1.4, vertex density 2 1 connected surface components Total solvent excluded surface area = 345.475 Total solvent accessible surface area = 606.13 running "/usr/local/chimera/bin/povray" "/home/kruggel/chimera/4wiebke/image.ini" "+I/home/kruggel/chimera/4wiebke/image.pov" "+O/home/kruggel/chimera/4wiebke/image.png" "+V" povray: cannot open the user configuration file /home/kruggel/.povray/3.6/povray.conf: No such file or directory Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (g++ -pipe -ansi -pthread -fPIC -I/home/chimera/chimeraBuild_X11/build/build/include 3.3.4 @ i686-pc-linux-gnu) This is an unofficial version compiled by: UCSF Chimera <chimera@cgl.ucsf.edu> The POV-Ray Team(tm) is not responsible for supporting this version. POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team Copyright 2003-2004 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. Primary POV-Ray 3.5/3.6 Developers: (Alphabetically) Chris Cason Thorsten Froehlich Nathan Kopp Ron Parker Contributing Authors: (Alphabetically) Steve Anger Eric Barish Dieter Bayer Steve A. Bennett David K. Buck Nicolas Calimet Aaron A. Collins Chris Dailey Steve Demlow Andreas Dilger Alexander Enzmann Dan Farmer Mark Gordon Christoph Hormann Mike Hough Chris Huff Kari Kivisalo Lutz Kretzschmar Jochen Lippert Pascal Massimino Jim McElhiney Douglas Muir Juha Nieminen Bill Pulver Eduard Schwan Wlodzimierz Skiba Robert Skinner Yvo Smellenbergh Zsolt Szalavari Scott Taylor Massimo Valentini Timothy Wegner Drew Wells Chris Young Other contributors are listed in the documentation. Support libraries used by POV-Ray: ZLib 1.2.3, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler LibPNG 1.2.16, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane LibTIFF 3.8.0, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI Redirecting Options All Streams to console..........On Debug Stream to console.........On Fatal Stream to console.........On Render Stream to console........On Statistics Stream to console....On Warning Stream to console.......On Parsing Options Input file: /home/kruggel/chimera/4wiebke/image.pov (compatible to version 3.61) Remove bounds........On Split unions.........On Library paths: /usr/local/chimera/share/povray-3.6 /usr/local/chimera/share/povray-3.6/ini /usr/local/chimera/share/povray-3.6/include /usr/local/chimera/share/fonts Output Options Image resolution 1730 by 1280 (rows 1 to 1280, columns 1 to 1730). Output file: /home/kruggel/chimera/4wiebke/image.png, 24 bpp PNG Graphic display......Off Mosaic preview.......Off CPU usage histogram..Off Continued trace......Off Tracing Options Quality: 9 Bounding boxes.......On Bounding threshold: 1 Light Buffer.........On Vista Buffer.........On Draw Vista Buffer....Off Antialiasing.........On (Method 1, Threshold 0.300, Depth 3, Jitter 1.00) Clock value: 0.000 (Animation off) 0:00:00 Parsing File: /home/kruggel/chimera/4wiebke/image.pov Line: 92 Parse Warning: Should have at least 2 objects in csg.

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Sebastian Kruggel wrote:
Dear Chimera-users and team,
I tried to generate a POV-Ray image making use of mesh style surface by
surfrepr mesh
When I go to 'save image' with activated POV-Ray option, I get the attached error message. I tried several versions ('stable' and daily build, linux and windows) and different molecules but it doesn't work out. Isn't it possible to get raytraced mesh-surface pictures in chimera or do I miss anything?
Thanks in advance and best regards Sebastian Kruggel
You found a bug in chimera's POV-ray output. I created a ticket for you, so you'll be notified when it is fixed. Currently, the only workaround is to set the POV-ray options to keep the input files and save an image with POV-ray, so when it fails, you have the image.ini and image.pov files. Then you'll need to edit the image.pov file and change the refererences to the unknown texture to a known one (see the #declare's at the top of the image.pov file). And, finally, run POV-ray by hand: CHIMERA/bin/povray +Iimage.pov +Oimage.png image.ini FYI, with this simple workaround, the mesh is all one color. - Greg
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