[chimerax-users] Chimera question

[Daniel VillanuevaAvalos]

Hello Elaine,

I am trying to decide if it is better for me to invest time into learning
Chimera X or if I should just keep using Houdini FX for most of the
animation and rendering. So, there are two things that I have been trying
to do but have not been able to find an answer:

1. Is there a way to export some kind of alembic file from Chimera X to
import it into Houdini or Maya? I want to export a molecule changing
conformation, but I don't see an .abc export option in the documentation.
2. My other question is if there is a way to render a sequence of images
from Chimera X to then import them as a png sequence into After Effects. I
was able to render an individual frame but I don´t know if I can render a
whole sequence.

Thank you,
Daniel.

P.S. Chimera X is amazing

El mar, 21 jun 2022 a la(s) 20:14, Daniel VillanuevaAvalos (
danielvillanuevaavalos at gmail.com) escribió:

> Thank you very much.
> And yes, I'm using chimera x.
>
> Daniel.
>
> El mar, 21 jun 2022 a la(s) 16:03, Elaine Meng (meng at cgl.ucsf.edu)
> escribió:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>> The "sym" command for building the multimer from monomer has both a
>> "center" option and an "axis" option that you may need to use for helical
>> symmetry.
>>
>> I'm not sure which program you are using, since the subject line of the
>> message says "Chimera" but you sent it to chimerax-users.
>>
>> Here is the ChimeraX help for "sym":
>> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/sym.html>
>>
>> Here is the Chimera help for "sym" (very similar but not the same as in
>> Chimera):
>> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/sym.html>
>>
>> If it is really a Chimera question, (for next time) you could send it to
>> chimera-users at cgl.ucsf.edu instead.
>>
>> Sym is just for building the multimer.  It won't change the coordinates
>> to make them closer to the origin.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>> Elaine
>> -----
>> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
>> UCSF Chimera(X) team
>> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
>> University of California, San Francisco
>>
>>
>> > On Jun 21, 2022, at 2:41 PM, Daniel VillanuevaAvalos via ChimeraX-users
>> <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > I am trying to create a spirosome, and I am entering   sym #1
>> h,56.5,164.4,12 but the radius of the helix is wrong. How can I change it?
>> What I am trying to do is move my obj closer to origin but I cannot find a
>> way to do that. I can only move the pivot to center with cofr 0,0,0.
>> > Thank you,
>> > Daniel.
>>
>>
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