<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Hong,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> If you get tomorrow's (Tuesday Oct 18, 2022) ChimeraX daily build (not the 1.5 release candidate) it will make the surface colors match your cartoon colors.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> ChimeraX was coloring the molecular surface of chains using a fixed set of colors instead of trying to match the color you set for the atoms of your structure. That seems not so great. So I changed it today so that new molecular surfaces have their color match the ribbon/cartoon color of the residues for that surface. (If the residues have multiple colors then the average is used).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Also I added an option to the ChimeraX color command to make the surface colors match the ribbon/cartoon colors. For example</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>color #1 fromcartoons</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With this command if the residues have different ribbon / cartoon colors then the surface will also have multiple colors matching the residues.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Thanks for pointing out the difficulty in getting the surface colors to match the structure colors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="77AF4710-D848-44F3-979E-C82EDCC3535B" width="805" height="432" src="cid:75833FA7-6B69-4D20-8D77-BE5057064B93" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 14, 2022, at 6:43 PM, HONG ZHAN via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear all, <br class=""><br class="">I would like to generate surface using my model but I want to keep the color as I defined. My protein contains only one chain so that when I ran Surface command, it generated surface with one color... Is there a way to generate surface to keep my defined color? <br class=""><br class="">Super thanks!<br class="">Hong<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ChimeraX-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br class="">Manage subscription:<br class="">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimerax-users<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>