Dear colleagues, I have several maps and models that I would like to spin around independently at once and record as a movie. How to do that? Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Dmitry
Hi Dmitry, Unfortunately ChimeraX does not have scriptable independent rotation, sorry. The only similar thing is that you can set models to rotate independently when moved with the mouse: the "rotate independent" mouse mode available in ChimeraX 1.4 or newer. For example: mousemode right "rotate independent" ...to set right mouse button to that mode. <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/ui.html#mousemode> I don't know how you could make such a movie. Maybe you could separate movies (saving all the image frames) and use some other program to paste the image frames side by side to combine them into one movie, but I haven't tried it myself. Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Jul 25, 2022, at 7:46 AM, Dmitry Semchonok via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear colleagues, I have several maps and models that I would like to spin around independently at once and record as a movie. How to do that? Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Dmitry
Hi Dmitry, You can use the "model" and "center" options of the turn command to rotate each model about their own center. For example, rotating 2 models in 1 degree steps around the y axis for a total of 360 degrees movie record turn y 1 360 model #1 center #1 turn y 1 360 model #2 center #2 wait 360 movie encode side-by-side-spin.mp4 In this example the two models rotate at the same time. The turn command like other commands that create a motion returns immediately before any motion is done to allow you to start simultaneous motions. Then you use the "wait 360" command to wait until 360 frames have been rendered, then the .mp4 movie file is made. Tom
On Jul 25, 2022, at 7:46 AM, Dmitry Semchonok via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I have several maps and models that I would like to spin around independently at once and record as a movie.
How to do that?
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Dmitry
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