[chimerax-users] Appearance of thick edges

Yazan Abbas yazan.abbas at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 14:13:04 PDT 2019


Hi Elaine,

Thank you very much for your help, that setting did it. I didn't realise
the parameters changes and wouldn't have known to look for it.

Best,

Yazan

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 5:06 PM Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Yazan,
> Try increasing silhouetteDepthJump:
>
> <
> http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/set.html#silhouetteDepthJump
> >
>
> Probably you tried the flat lighting preset which made it smaller than the
> initial default.
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Jul 11, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Yazan Abbas <yazan.abbas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Elaine,
> >
> > The thin silhouettes at the edges in my image are intentional, it is the
> thicker silhouettes where the model curves that are bothering me. They seem
> to intensify as the clipping changes, or when I rotate the model. In other
> figures I am preparing, the silhouettes are even more intense especially in
> cartoon helix tube mode and around the the curved parts of the tube (see
> image attached). They just appeared at one point in my session and I can't
> make them go away. They were definitely not there before even when
> silhouettes were turned on.
> >
> > Yazan
> >
>
>
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