Dear Elaine,

Thank you very much, that solved my issue!

Best, Wout

On 9/19/23, 6:00 PM, "Elaine Meng" <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Dear Wout, Opening with name-globbing alone is for certain types that are automatically recognized as series. For other types, however, you would additionally need to use the "vseries" option of "open" which was the second part of the sentence (after the semicolon) that you quoted:

"Volume data can be opened as a series with open, employing filename wildcard symbols or globbing as needed to specify multiple files in a single command; 3D TIFF images and Chimera map files containing five or more same-sized maps are automatically treated as series, if possible, whereas other sets of same-sized maps can be designated as series with the 'vseries' option of 'open'."

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/trajectories.html#vseries https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/trajectories.html#vseries>

For example, command:

open myseries*.ccp4 vseries true

vseries option of open: https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#vseries https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#vseries>

I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco

On Sep 19, 2023, at 8:33 AM, Wout Oosterheert via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

Dear ChimeraX team,

I’m currently trying to open a volume and play a volume series in ChimeraX. According to the website (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/trajectories.html https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/trajectories.html), opening a volume series should work like this: “Volume data can be opened as a series with open, employing filename wildcard symbols or globbing as needed to specify multiple files in a single command”. This seems simple enough, I indeed can open the volumes as a group. However, when I then try to play the series using: vseries play #1 direction oscillate loop true, I get the error: no volume series specified.

Could you explain to me how I can get my group of volumes recognized as a volume series? The vseries page (https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/vseries.html https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/vseries.html) is very elaborate, but I cannot find alternative options of opening my volumes as a series. I know how to do things in regular Chimera, but would prefer to stick with ChimeraX because I make all my other figures with it.

Thank you very much in advance!!

Best, Wout