[chimerax-users] [Chimera-users] Questions in ChimeraX comparing with Chimera

[Elaine Meng]

Dear Long Gui,
(1) There is no way to open more than one session file in the same instance of ChimeraX, sorry.  You can open multiple data files, of course, and have multiple maps, structures, etc. all at the same time, just not from multiple session files.

(2) I'm told that the current way to show solid style (also called image style in ChimeraX) planes with zero transparency is to use command

volume #2 colormode l8

(the last thing is the letter L except lowercase l and the number 8).  See image display options:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#dispsolid>

Theoretically the following command should also work but currently does not:

volume #2 transparency 0

...although a low almost-zero number should work:

volume #2 transparency 0.01

See general display options:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#general>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Apr 27, 2022, at 11:25 AM, Long Gui via Chimera-users <chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Chimera users, 
> 
> I have been recently transferring to ChimeraX from the conventional Chimera and I am currently struggling with two features existing in Chimera but not in ChimeraX. 
> 
> 	• How could I combine two or several different ChimeraX files? I have been doing in Chimera as I was opening new chimera files by "Files...Open...", this is a window pop-up as the following and if I click "No", the new Chimera will be added to the cold Chimera as the old one was not closed. However, when I performed the similar operation in ChimeraX, there is no such window and the new ChimeraX would REPLACE the old one. I wonder if there is a way (probably using command to open? but I did not find the correct open options.) to open the new ChimeraX without closing the old one? 
> <save.png>
> 	• I am also working with tomogram slices and cellular segmentation. Previously, in Chimera I can set this Transparency value to 0 and the Plane of the tomogram will be totally opaque. Now in ChimeraX I have used the command "transparency #2 0" (#2 is the tomogram files) but it still look quite different from my previous images in Chimera. Is there a way to set it up in ChimeraX so it could look similar as before? 
> <Transparency.png>
> 
> Thanks again and I am very grateful if any advice or help could be provided.
> 
> Long Gui, Ph.D.  
> Postdoc Researcher, Nicastro Lab
> University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center