[chimerax-users] Fly function in ChimeraX - 2

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Gabor,
Sorry, ChimeraX does not yet have a “fly” command.

However, the “view" command should work to smoothly transition between two views.  (The “fly” command would only be different than “view” for transitioning along a path of more than two views.)  I’ve used it many times.

I’m guessing that the problem is that it doesn’t make sense to use “view” as a perframe action.  Instead you just put the number of frames for the transition directly in the view command, for example:

view pos1
view pos2 80

…for an 80-frame transition between previously saved views named pos1 and pos2.  As you probably know, the views are saved using the “view name” command.
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 Aug 16, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Gabor PAPAI <papai at igbmc.fr> wrote:
> 
> Dear developers,
> I’ve seen that two years ago the fly command from Chimera was not implemented in ChimeraX. Is it implemented now? Or does ChimeraX have a similar function? 
> I tried the view command inside the perframe function, unfortunately this didn’t result in a smooth transition between two named views. The only option I have now is to translate, zoom and rotate the scene with the individual commands, however this is quite tedious to set.
> Best regards,
> Gabor