[chimerax-users] centering the view on an atom or marker

[Megan Mayer]

Hi Elaine... the "view name 'NAME' " and "view 'NAME'" pair of commands
turned out to be exactly what I needed. Sorry I did not fully understand
the manual at first glance...

Thanks!!

Megan



On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:55 PM Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> You can save multiple views with different names (see "view name") and
> then gradually transition between them using "view" and "frames" with some
> number of frames.
>
> This is all explained in the "view" manual page
> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#name>
>
> See also "making movies" and links therein to movie tutorials:
> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html>
>
> Several commands have frame arguments directly within them, or if they
> don't, you can combine them with "perframe" commands for a repeated action.
>
> Making movie scripts is generally an iterative process with many
> adjustments and replays.  One wouldn't expect to just look at a script and
> predict the exact command to make it look how somebody else wants it to
> look.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
>
>
> > On Jul 29, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Megan Mayer <
> mmayer at nanoimagingservices.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Elaine, again, thank you very much. The hover tool is incredibly
> useful. I am now able to zoom the the sulphur atom.
> >
> > However, is there a way to slowly zoom from the entire structure, to the
> desired model number, in my video? Here is the example of what I use, but
> isn't quite right (i attached an example movie):
> >
> > #zoom into specific area then zoom back out to original
> >
> > movie record ; view orient ; wait 20 ; zoom 1.2 100; view #3 clip false
> ; wait 20; view orient ; movie encode ~/
> > Thank you very much,
> > Megan
>
>
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