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From: Jason Smith (jason_smith_18_at_sfu.ca)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2021 - 12:44:15 CDT

Hi Prateek,

I remember having trouble (on windows) with something similar. Transparency would cause a hang because most of my ram and vram was actually busy with another program - turning off transparency would work fine though, as did turning off the other programs like web browsers. However, I also know there have been some Mac specific problems in the past. Perhaps try to see if memory or OS is a contributing factor?

Cheers,

-
Jason Smith
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Robert N. Young Lab, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A-1S6
Canada

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From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Vermaas, Josh <vermaasj_at_msu.edu>
Sent: Monday, 23 August 2021 9:47 AM
To: Prateek Bansal; vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: VMD Tachyon Render fails with new material

Does it “work” with one of the glasses? Transparent surfaces make Tachyon do *a lot* more work. Depending on your settings, it can take quite a while to render, especially with CPUs only, like it would be on a Mac.

-Josh

From: <owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Prateek Bansal <bansalprateek97_at_gmail.com>
Date: Monday, August 23, 2021 at 12:26 PM
To: "vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
Subject: vmd-l: VMD Tachyon Render fails with new material

Hello VMD Community,

I am trying to use VMD to visualize a membrane protein. I have output from the HOLE2 program which lets me visualize the tunnel inside it. To visualize the tunnel better, I use a surf representation of the protein and make a new material with lesser opacity. When I try to render it using Tachyon/Tachyon Internal, VMD stops responding and I have to end up closing it. Rendering works when the material is one of the default ones (Opaque, for e.g.). Any insights would be appreciated.

I am using MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) and VMD 1.9.4a51.

Prateek