Hi,
I have a bunch of shapes (spheres and cylinders) created through a .bld script. I'd like to load this script once, and then be able to change the colors of said shapes in successive operations. It is possible to set the colors directly in the .bld script, but I need to make an animation out of this. E.g: if my .bld script contains lines that draws shapes like so:
.sphere 0 0 -1 5.0
.cylinder 0 0 0 1 1 1 1.0

I want to be able to later have a bunch of scripts called 1.cxc, 2.cxc, 3.cxc, .... each of which change the color of the sphere and cylinder. This way, I can load these scripts in the per-frame mode, to create an animation out of the color changes. 

Alternatively, I tried doing this with just the shape command and without a .bld script, but I have over ~10000 shapes; the shape command interprets each as a different model, and my computer hangs. 

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Thanks,
Tanmoy

Tanmoy Sanyal
Postdoctoral scholar, Sali lab,
University of California San Francisco
Phone:- (+1) 805-637-0375