[Chimera-users] Making a movie from map series while keeping map's colors

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Michal,
Since this is a ChimeraX question I'm putting it on chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu -- otherwise the Chimera users will be confused!  In the future you may want to use that address for ChimeraX questions.

If I remember correctly, "vseries" re-renders the surfaces at the time of playback, unless you specify storing more of them with the "cacheFrames" option -- so try using "vseries" with "cacheFrames 20":
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/vseries.html>

See previous answer to a similar question:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimerax-users/2022-February/003271.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On May 16, 2022, at 12:45 AM, Michal Arie Shmuelov via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I have 20 maps (from 3D variability analysis) that I open as series in chimeraX.
> I’m coloring the map series using the command “color zone #X near #X distance X” (coloring the map according to pdb model).
> Next I’m trying to make a movie of this map series while retaining the map colors.
> For some reason when the morph/ vseries  starts to run the colors disappear.
> Can someone help me to solve this problem?
> What are the commands that I should write?
> Thanks,
> Michal  
>