<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Thibault,<div class="">I haven't been able to come up with a combination of ChimeraX settings to make an image like that. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Starting from flat (first image attached), as soon as I turn on multishadows (light multishadow 128), it looks 3D, not flat (second image attached). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I also tried instead using depth-cueing (light depthcuestart 0.1 depthcueend .75 depthcuecolor black depthcue true -> third image attached), but that doesn't achieve a similar appearance either. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe someone else can come up with how to make an image similar to yours, but as far as I can tell, it may not be possible.</div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Elaine<br class=""><div class="">-----<br class="">Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.<br class="">UCSF Chimera(X) team<br class="">Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br class="">University of California, San Francisco<br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On May 26, 2022, at 10:44 AM, Thibault TUBIANA via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear Chimera X community and developpers :) <br class=""><br class="">I would like to create a flat representation for a protein but with ambiant occlusion, a little bit like on the example joined (made with <a href="https://3dproteinimaging.com" class="">https://3dproteinimaging.com</a>).<br class="">Is it something that it is possible with ChimeraX ? I've been playing with the shaddows but the "flat effect" is disappearing then :/ <br class=""><br class="">Thank you :) <br class="">Thibault.<br class=""></blockquote><img apple-inline="yes" id="67EF5BFB-7C2D-4EFD-8EA7-499999D8EE97" src="cid:BC29392C-6049-4F36-9A73-633E5E38898D@cgl.ucsf.edu" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="2DDFEAF1-3CC1-4A5F-B375-ADB736B1A3A3" src="cid:98CA2C56-10A6-4598-85EF-2D741EDD1A4F@cgl.ucsf.edu" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="92E338A3-DCB4-4D40-AFE5-A120DC9B8886" src="cid:FC04C985-0D13-4A15-B804-5CF9132196A2@cgl.ucsf.edu" class=""></div></body></html>