[chimerax-users] Transparency with soft lighting

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Scott,
It is easy to turn on soft lighting, either use command "light soft" or just click the icon that looks like a sugar cube in the toolbar across the top.

See lighting help:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/lighting.html>

There are several ways to make the EM isosurface transparent, e.g. by clicking the color square in the Volume Viewer dialog and using the system color editor (which generally has some kind of opacity control), or selecting the isosurface in the graphics window (Ctrl-click) and using menu Actions... Surface... Transparency... [ %value]

Volume Viewer:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/volumeviewer.html>

selection:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/selection.html>

Actions menu:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/menu.html#actions>

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 Feb 10, 2023, at 6:48 AM, Scott Stagg via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I’m writing because I saw in a YouTube video that you used “soft” lighting with transparency for an EM density map. It looked great. I can’t find the video again or the right documentation on how to do it. There was some command with the lighting that you typed in the command line. Do you know what I’m talking about?
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott