Hi all,

 

Is it possible to specifically hide silhouettes? The “graphics silhouettes” command unfortunately does not take a spec argument.

 

One example is to hide it for the mesh when you want to show the model and the map at the same time. Silhouettes around the mesh can make the scene look very cluttered. For this particular case, my colleague showed me a trick to use the selection command instead of “graphics silhouettes” and change the appearance of the selection, e.g. “graphics selection color black width 1”. But it gives slighly different apperance with far clip planes, where silhouettes are truncated while selections are enclosing clipped elements, removing some of the depth illusion from the mist.

 

Another scenario is for pseudobonds, e.g. when displaying cartoon and mainchain atoms at the same time using the trick with “cartoon suppress false;

cartoon tether opacity 0” given in this thread https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/message/U4IHTWL7O7RDWVGX4RXGJHKUY7LQFMKY/ I like to have the cartoon visible to guide the eye where the main chain goes, but I do not want the pseudo bonds to be visible since that adds clutter and is confusing. But the silhouettes command will outline the connections to the ribbon for the C3’ and C4’ atoms in nucleic acids.

 

Regards,

Daniel