[chimerax-users] z-slice movie making

[Vadim Kotov]

Hi, Kako!

  I think all you have to do is to save respective views with clipping 
enabled and then make a movie that would interpolate between these 
views. To be more specific:

1) Save the starting view:
view orient
view name initial_view

2) adjust the clipping planes and orientation of the map as you wish and 
save another view:
view name clip_view

3) go back to the initial view and interpolate to the clipped view over 
100 frames:
view initial_view
view clip_view 100; wait 100

  Of note, I used these commands ~1 year ago to make a movie for our 
lab's webpage 
<https://www.cssb-hamburg.de/research/research_groups/loew_group/index_eng.html>, 
so the syntax might have changed in the meantime.

  Alternatively, you could set up the clipping planes outside the map 
and then move it through the clipping planes with move 
<http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/move.html> command 
that uses several frames.

  Good luck!

Best wishes,
Vadim


On 23.04.21 09:41, Stapleton kevin2017/4/3 wrote:
> Greeting everyone in the ChiX community.  Long time listener first time caller :-)
>
> I was wondering if anyone could help me with making a movie that is essentially slicing (clipping) through a given volume.
>
> I am pretty comfortable with the movie making movie parameters and I have read through the sections
>   
> 1) help:user/movies.html
> 2) help:user/commands/clip.html
>
> However the command parameters explanation is juuuuust a smidgen beyond my limits (almost there...damn!) and cant seems to get this into a working movie (if possible at all).
>
> So, using the emdb entry: 22910 for example case, how can I make a movie that is 10 seconds long and extends through the clipping plane of a given volume, moving front to back (from the "view orient" perspective; the clipping plane will extend forward through the volume, and back again)
>
> Thanks for all your help in this specific case, and for all of the efforts put into to this mailing list.  It has been a well spring of fun learning for me over the years.  SO many cool tips and tricks to make macro-molecular structures look top notch and cool.   THANKS CHIMERA TEAM!!
>
> All the best and well wishes from Japan,
> Kako
>
> PS. apologies if this was covered in a previous thread.  I must have missed it.
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