[chimerax-users] Loading density files

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Tianming,
If the maps are on the same grids as each other, i.e. their outline boxes would be the same and they have the same number of grid points with same spacing, they can be opened as a "volume series" -- then you can play the series with the "vseries play" command or interactively using a slider interface shown with "vseries slider":

Volume series and how to open the files so that they are interpreted as series:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/trajectories.html>

You might need to name the files a certain way so that you can specify them in a single "open" command.  See "open" command "vseries" option:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#vseries>

For playback after opening, see the "vseries" commands, including "vseries play" and "vseries slider":
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/vseries.html>

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 Oct 11, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Tianming Qu via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear Chimerax developers:
>  
> I have a lot of density files, is there anyway I can load them at the same time and view then like a protein traj?
>  
> Best,
> Tianming