Saving Looking Glass shots and movies

Hi, Once I open a structure, create a scene and adjust the depth in the Looking Glass display, is there way to save that in a format that can then be imported into the Looking Glass Studio to be displayed in the stand-alone mode of the display? It is possible to do the same thing with animation, such as a 360 rotation or rocking? Thanks, Gökhan

Hi Gökhan, It looks like Looking Glass Studio can import a tiled array of images at different viewing angles either as a PNG image or an MP4 movie: https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/software/looking-glass-studio/quilt-pho... The ChimeraX lookingglass command can show the quilt image in a window using "looking quilt true". You could screen capture that. But maybe better to get ChimeraX to write out the exact tiled image. I see there is a _save_screen_image() routine in the ChimeraX LookingGlass code that is currently not used. But if you are handy at modifying the code it use it. https://github.com/RBVI/ChimeraX/blob/9065b7f6b0e0eeeffe24977d331a31b08fcc90... I've attached an example below of what the saved image looks like. You can just edit the lookingglass.py file in your ChimeraX distribution and restart ChimeraX. That file would be here in a Mac ChimeraX daily build (for ChimeraX 1.6, change python3.11 to python3.9) ChimeraX.app/Contents/lib/python3.11/site-packages/chimerax/looking_glass/lookingglass.py Tom 
On Oct 4, 2023, at 10:18 PM, Gokhan via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi,
Once I open a structure, create a scene and adjust the depth in the Looking Glass display, is there way to save that in a format that can then be imported into the Looking Glass Studio to be displayed in the stand-alone mode of the display?
It is possible to do the same thing with animation, such as a 360 rotation or rocking?
Thanks,
Gökhan
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