Hi Pedro, Sorry no, there is no option to put silhouettes only some model(s) and not others. It is a global setting: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/graphics.html#silhouettes> Sometimes you can approximately "fake" this effect by using the selection outline. It is not the same, however, as silhouettes; it will only go around the outside perimeter of the selected item(s). See this previous post for an example set of commands: <https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/message/X7UN5ACWPO5ZSYU3BHLFWGTLTPWDXVHW/> See also this previous post about the poor appearance of silhouettes on mesh: <https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/message/NFNED62LWN6M3QVABBRTVSS5C2QTFN2V/> 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 Mar 6, 2024, at 5:47 AM, Pedro Bule via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi, I'm writing to know if there is a way to turn on the silhouette graphical option only on selected models in ChimeraX, or is it just a global option? I have a model of an enzyme with its ligand and another model with the electron density loaded from a .map file. I want to display the electron density around the ligand as a slightly transparent mesh without silhouettes (see below) while still having silhouettes on the enzyme and ligand. Is there a way to do this? The silhouettes on the mesh make it too dark and dense (see image 2). Thank you very much Pedro Bule