You can adjust the display to your preferred appearance beforehand with many "graphics" and "lighting" command options (e.g. "graphics silhouettes" has a "width" option), see the help pages for those commands. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/graphics.html> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/lighting.html> I don't know what you mean by cartoon animation, but there are also "cartoon style" options that you can set before movie recording and/or change during the movie. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/cartoon.html> However, the loss of quality may be in the movie encoding stage (when it converts from individual images to the movie file) so you may need to also try different "movie encode" options. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/movie.html#encode> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Feb 5, 2024, at 7:52 AM, Enrico Martinez <jmsstarlight@gmail.com> wrote:
P.S. I also have one more question about the movie record Would it be possible to select different raytracing modes during the movie recording with the aim to add some elements of "cartoon animation" to the final story ? E.g. while recording the movie using movie record / encode I found that the silhouettes have almost disappeared while I do see them in the current GUI during recording ... Also the surfaces looks abit different on video compared to what I see in the final movie (abit plastic look)
Many thanks in advance!!
Il giorno lun 5 feb 2024 alle ore 09:42 Enrico Martinez <jmsstarlight@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Just another question about movie making in the Chimera-X.
Assuming that I've loaded all the frames from the pdb using
open ./my.pdb coordset true
and set up all the graphical options for this trajectory.
would it be possible to load another pdb file (as the second part of the same trajectory) in the current session, just adding additional frames without alterations of the orientation of the object displayed in the graphical window ?
Many thanks in advance !
Enrico
Il giorno ven 2 feb 2024 alle ore 17:19 Enrico Martinez <jmsstarlight@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Thank you very much, Elaine !
All the best,
Enrico
Il giorno ven 2 feb 2024 alle ore 17:14 Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> ha scritto:
Yes, you can simply use the "coordset" command to play the trajectory in reverse by specifying a negative step, e.g.
coordset #4 10000,1,-1
where as the help page says, #4 is the trajectory model number, 10000 is the trajectory frame to start, 1 is the trajectory frame to end, -1 is the step. Please see the page:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/coordset.html>
I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Feb 2, 2024, at 5:40 AM, Enrico Martinez via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
One more question about movie making in Chimera-X
Is there some possibility to record molecular movie in the reverse order from a given multi-model pdb file ? E.g. having 1000 models, I would like to record it from 1000,999,998 ... 1 .
Many thanks in advance
Enrico