[chimerax-users] Accessing shapes created through a .BLD script

[Tanmoy Sanyal]

Hi,
I have a bunch of shapes (spheres and cylinders) created through a .bld
script. I'd like to load this script once, and then be able to change the
colors of said shapes in successive operations. It is possible to set the
colors directly in the .bld script, but I need to make an animation out of
this. E.g: if my .bld script contains lines that draws shapes like so:
.sphere 0 0 -1 5.0
.cylinder 0 0 0 1 1 1 1.0

I want to be able to later have a bunch of scripts called 1.cxc, 2.cxc,
3.cxc, .... each of which change the color of the sphere and cylinder. This
way, I can load these scripts in the per-frame mode, to create an animation
out of the color changes.

Alternatively, I tried doing this with just the shape command and without a
.bld script, but I have over ~10000 shapes; the shape command interprets
each as a different model, and my computer hangs.

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Thanks,
Tanmoy

Tanmoy Sanyal
Postdoctoral scholar, Sali lab <https://salilab.org/>,
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
<https://bts.ucsf.edu/>,
University of California San Francisco
Phone:- (+1) 805-637-0375
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