Hi Elaine,

That worked perfectly. Thanks! 
I'm familiar with the view command and use it very often but I never realized it can be executed over frames...

Thanks again!


Donna Matzov, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Shalev-Benami Lab
From: Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 6:04 PM
To: Matzov Donna <matzov.donna@weizmann.ac.il>
Cc: chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Ligand flying movie in chimeraX
 
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Hi Donna,
ChimeraX has a "view name" command that is like the Chimera "savepos" command.  Then when you have previously saved (named) a view, you can restore it later with that name also using "view" -- see ChimeraX help for more details:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#name>

See also ChimeraX "making movies" and links therein to ChimeraX movie tutorials:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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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 Mar 26, 2025, at 7:27 AM, Matzov Donna via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm trying to create a movie in Chimerax similar to the "Ligand flying into unbound conformation" that was in the old Chimera movie tutorials (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/data/tutorials/movies08/moviemaking.html).
>
> I tried using the "reset" command, but it seems like it doesn't exist in ChimeraX. Is there a command that replaces it? Alternatively, I would be happy for any suggestion ​for how to get an effect similar to the flying ligand in ChimeraX.
>
> Thanks,
> Donna