[chimerax-users] ray tracing

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Juraj,
There isn’t a ray-tracing option in ChimeraX, but other high-quality rendering options: shadows and/or ambient occlusion.  You can try them out by clicking different icons in the Graphics tab of the Toolbar.

<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/graphics.html>

Even in Chimera, I personally would not recommend the ray-tracing option because I could get clearer, better-looking images without it. I would use the direct rendering in Chimera, usually with silhouette edges.  You can also turn on interactive shadows in Chimera.

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 Sep 24, 2019, at 5:36 AM, Ahel,Juraj <juraj.ahel at imp.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> pardon me if this has already been answered elsewhere, but I failed to find any information about this in the publication, webpage, or the mailing list archive.
> Is there a way to generate images of ray-traced maps in ChimeraX? I was often using it in Chimera but I can't find the option to do it in ChimeraX. Was it not included as a feature?
> Many thanks!
> Juraj