[chimerax-users] Animation feature in ChimeraX?

[Elaine Meng]

Hello Dr. Tweten,
Thanks for the feedback, but could you clarify a bit:  did you mean a graphical interface to morphing between conformations of atomic structures, like the "Morph Conformations" tool in Chimera?  The "Animation" tool in Chimera is different:  it doesn't do morphing, but it is a graphical interface to making movies, and it does various gradual transitions like fading in and out, and moving a structure from one place to another without changing its conformation.   

Chimera tools...
Morph Conformations:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/morph/morph.html>
Animation:
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/animation/frameanimation.html>

I wasn't sure which tool you meant, or whether you possibly meant both.
Thanks,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Nov 20, 2020, at 11:04 AM, Eric Pettersen <pett at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Tweten, Rodney K. (HSC)" <Rodney-Tweten at ouhsc.edu>
>> Subject: Animatin feature in ChimeraX?
>> Date: November 20, 2020 at 10:05:00 AM PST
>> To: "chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu" <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
>> Hi,
>> I have used Chimera for years for my publications and for generating animations for lectures and invited talks. I found the animation feature incredibly easy to use and intuitive. However I did not find a similar feature in ChimerX. I read about the Morph command but to me this seems much more complicated to use and much less intuitive. Is there a graphical interface to the Morph command or is this going to remain a command line feature only? I often use the animation feature of chimera to morph between two structural states, which is really easy.
>> Cheers,
>> Rodney Tweten, Ph.D.
>> George Lynn Cross Professor
>> Presidential Professor 
>>