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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 11:18:55 CST

Dear Peter,
  This bug should be cured in VMD 1.7.1, if you use the
Render, or POV-Ray export options. Tachyon produces correctly oriented
output for perspective renderings, but since it doesn't do orthographic
rendering yet, it doesn't match for orthographic VMD scenes. I'd
recommend using one of those three options to get the best matching output
in VMD 1.7.1. I'd strongly recommend upgrading to VMD 1.7.1 on your Linux
systems if you're attempting to produce images with the ray tracers etc.
Please let us know if you need help getting your images to look the way
you want.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:11:36PM +0200, Peter Varnai wrote:
> Dear VMD-users,
>
> 1, My output picture after 'Render' (pov or ps) is in a different position
> to what I see on the screen. Can I get the manually adjusted orientation
> in the file? I use VMD 1.6 Linux Mesa or 1.7.1 Windows. I see that this
> is a known problem (UG 6.3) but I wonder if someone knows a way out.
>
> 2, I have a structure with many accumulated water O positions around
> it. I would like to color by resid, but it seems that I have only 16
> colors so the same color is shown for different waters.
> Now I saw that in principle it is possible to override the defaults but
> it seems for some reason that resid is not a valid colorinfo category.
>
> Thank you,
> Peter 

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