[Chimera-users] ambient lighting mode for simple drawing style missing

[Daniel Gurnon]

Elaine,
Christian's question reminds me- if I open a saved session in which ambient
lighting was enabled, the reconstituted scene appears to be lit with a
combination of ambient and point lighting. I can fix it by going to the
effects menu and switching out of and back into ambient, so its not a big
deal. But in case its a quick fix, I wanted to report the issue.
Dan

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Benda, Christian <benda at biochem.mpg.de>wrote:

> Hi Elaine,
>
> thanks a lot for your kind and prompt reply. Updating to the latest version
> solved all my problems!
>
> Best
>
> Christian
>
>
> Am 02.03.2011 um 18:28 schrieb Elaine Meng:
>
> > Hi Christian,
> > You are using an older version of Chimera -- there were many months of
> 1.5 daily builds before the 1.5 production release in December 2010, build
> 32133, and the build number suggests you have one of those older daily
> builds.  The 1.5 production release and newer versions include the
> additional lighting options.
> >
> > A related issue:
> > There was an image-saving linewidth bug that was fixed a couple of weeks
> ago, but the fix is only in the 1.6 daily build, not in release 1.5.2 (Jan
> 25, 2011).  We are planning a 1.5.3 release for next week which will also
> have the fix.  Since you are working on images, I would recommend either
> waiting for the 1.5.3 release or trying the 1.6 daily build now and getting
> 1.5.3 when it is available.
> >
> > I hope this helps,
> > Elaine
> > ----------
> > Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> > UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> > Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> > University of California, San Francisco
> >
> > On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Benda, Christian wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >> possibly a simple question but it has kept me buffled for two weeks now,
> so I decided to ask:
> >>
> >> how can I set lighting mode to ambient?
> >>
> >> I am trying to create images using a simple drawing style like
> exemplified in
> >>
> >> http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/ImageGallery/
> >>
> >> p53 simple drawing or
> >>
> >> Clathrin
> >>
> >> but I don't find ambient lighting mode in the viewing tools - lighting
> menu. The only options given are lights (head light, 1, 2) or quality
> (normal, glossy).
> >>
> >> I am using Chimera 1.5 build 30417 fir darwin 64bit, aqua on a MacBook
> Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.6.
> >>
> >> Many thanks in advance
> >> Christian
> >
>
>
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