[chimerax-users] Surface zone and movie recording

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Józef,
I can reproduce this problem.  I'll create a bug ticket and put your e-mail address on it so you will receive notifications about our findings on this issue.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Feb 25, 2022, at 5:42 AM, Lewandowski, Jozef via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
>  
> I would like to use “surface zone” command to visualise a substrate channel in an animation of an MD trajectory. For that I would like to regenerate the surface every frame with “perframe”.
> However, if I do that when I record the movie the entire surface (instead of just the selected zone) will flash before the zone is displayed. Is there any way so that only the surface zone will be displayed from frame to frame without the entire surface flashing?
> I essentially just would like to follow the changes to the substrate channel without any distractions.
>  
> Thank you,
> Józef
>  
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