Hi Corey, This is a Chimera bug. If you use "movie record <some options>" then "movie stop" then you use "movie record <other options>" in the same session Chimera ignores the options to the second movie record and just uses the ones you specified on the first movie record command. There is some sense to this because if you for example change the recording directory of filename pattern then later try to do a "movie encode" it is going to generate an error because it doesn't keep track of the places and names and you gave to the files in the different recorded segments. There are two ways to handle this: 1) use the same movie record options for all frames (raytrace all frames), or 2) restart Chimera if you want to change movie record options. I think method 2 will also start numbering the frames from 0 so it will overwrite frames if you put them in the same directory. I'll create a bug report for this so it does not behave in such a confusing way. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] help with raytrace From: Corey Fugate To: Thomas Goddard Date: 11/13/09 6:33 PM

The raytrace option in the script looks exactly like the chimera window quality and nothing like an image made using raytrace.

Corey

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Chimera-users] help with raytrace From: Corey Fugate To: chimera-users Date: 11/13/09 1:12 PM

I am trying to improve image quality using the raytrace option. The script is below -

reset view_1 movie record directory /Users/fugate/Desktop pattern partA_* fformat png raytrace true wait 15 delete :.B move x 1.25 15;wait wait 15 movie stop

Everything works fine without "raytrace true". I should note that I do not have the movie encode command because I want to have the individual images ( for a larger Flash project). When I compare the raytrace true images produced from the script to an image generated using the "save image" option under the File menu setting "raytrace with POV" to true.

Am I missing something?

Corey