Hello, I have prepared a ribbons drawing for my structure, with axes for the helices in it (Tools -> Structure Analysis -> Axes/Planes/Centroids). When I try to reduce the shininess of the figure, I can change it for the ribbons (Viewing -> Lightning -> Shininess) but not for the axes, that remain unchanged (very shiny). Is there a way to change the shininess for all objects, ribbons and axes? Best wishes, Luca Luca Pellegrini, PhD Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 1GA United Kingdom lp212@cam.ac.uk tel.: 0044 1223 760469 https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/pellegrini-group/pellegrini-group @PellegriniLab
Hi Luca, Wow, I never noticed that before! Seems like a limitation or a bug, and I don’t know of a workaround… I even tried saving them as VRML, deleting the originals, and then reading in the VRML axes, but they had exactly the same problem. If you switch to ambient-only lighting (e.g. Viewing -> Lighting: Intensity, mode: ambient) the shiny highlights go away for everything, but I realize you may not want to do that. Sorry about that — thanks for mentioning it, though. I will make a ticket. Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Nov 13, 2019, at 9:34 AM, Luca Pellegrini <lp212@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello,
I have prepared a ribbons drawing for my structure, with axes for the helices in it (Tools -> Structure Analysis -> Axes/Planes/Centroids). When I try to reduce the shininess of the figure, I can change it for the ribbons (Viewing -> Lightning -> Shininess) but not for the axes, that remain unchanged (very shiny). Is there a way to change the shininess for all objects, ribbons and axes?
Best wishes, Luca
Hi Luca, That is a bug -- the shininess of helix axis cylinders should change using the shininess control. I have fixed it in the Chimera daily build. Tonight's Chimera daily build will have the fix. Not sure if Chimera builds will work tonight due to a power outage yesterday at UCSF. Look for Chimera build dated Nov 14 or later. Tom
On Nov 13, 2019, at 3:40 PM, Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Luca, Wow, I never noticed that before! Seems like a limitation or a bug, and I don’t know of a workaround… I even tried saving them as VRML, deleting the originals, and then reading in the VRML axes, but they had exactly the same problem.
If you switch to ambient-only lighting (e.g. Viewing -> Lighting: Intensity, mode: ambient) the shiny highlights go away for everything, but I realize you may not want to do that.
Sorry about that — thanks for mentioning it, though. I will make a ticket. Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Nov 13, 2019, at 9:34 AM, Luca Pellegrini <lp212@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello,
I have prepared a ribbons drawing for my structure, with axes for the helices in it (Tools -> Structure Analysis -> Axes/Planes/Centroids). When I try to reduce the shininess of the figure, I can change it for the ribbons (Viewing -> Lightning -> Shininess) but not for the axes, that remain unchanged (very shiny). Is there a way to change the shininess for all objects, ribbons and axes?
Best wishes, Luca
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