[chimerax-users] Volume series

Kotaro TANAKA kttn8769 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 21:28:31 PDT 2020


Hi Elaine and Tom,

Thank you for your comments! Now I have obtained my desired movie.

Kotaro

On 2020/06/09 10:36, Tom Goddard wrote:
> Hi Kotaro,
>
>   Unfortunately ChimeraX does not yet have a slider for playing 
> through the morph.  There is a feature request for this
>
> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/2784
>
> You can replay the morph without creating a new copy of it by 
> specifying the id number of the morph
>
> volume morph #1-10 model #11
>
> To record a movie
>
> movie record ; volume morph #1-10 model #11 ; wait 250 ; movie encode 
> ~/Desktop/mapmorph.mp4
>
> Commands are separated by semicolors.  The volume morph command shows 
> 25 frames per step by default but it returns immediately, so the "wait 
> 250" command says to wait that many frames before going to the next 
> command which outputs the movie file.
>
>   Our older program Chimera has a user interface panel with a slider 
> and a Record button so it a bit easier to use currently.  But it 
> doesn't have nice ambient shadow lighting ("light soft").  In the 
> future we will have a morph user interface panel in ChimeraX.
>
> Tom
>
>
>> On Jun 8, 2020, at 6:08 PM, Kotaro TANAKA <kttn8769 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:kttn8769 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm really a novice to chimerax, so please forgive me to ask two more 
>> questions...
>>
>> I have created a volume morph by 'volume morph #1-10', and after that,
>>
>> * How to open a morph control window (with a slider bar, 
>> play/stop/... buttons, etc.)
>> * How to create a movie file from the morph (a single run of the morph)
>>
>> It is difficult for me to find out how in the document 
>> https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Kotaro
>>
>> On 2020/06/09 0:41, Eric Pettersen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 8, 2020, at 6:35 AM, Kotaro TANAKA <kttn8769 at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:kttn8769 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I should obtain a volume series simply by opening the maps at once 
>>>> in a file opening dialogue.
>>>
>>> To follow up to what Tom wrote, you have to use the ‘open’ command 
>>> to create a series, you can’t use the open-file dialog.
>>>
>>> --Eric
>>>
>>> Eric Pettersen
>>> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>>>
>>>
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