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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu May 01 2008 - 21:56:13 CDT

Jason,
  This is one of the items that's on my TODO list to finish up.
I have added 3-D texturing to Tachyon in support of the type of
electrostatic potential renderings we do in VMD, and I've prototyped
the necessary interfaces in VMD, but I haven't finished debugging the
code yet. At present I've either got a bug on the Tachyon side or
on the VMD side but I need a day of uninterrupted development time
in order to finish it off. I'll let you know when I have something,
but for the present moment, the Snapshot rendering method is
your best bet.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:39:31PM -0400, Jason Winget wrote:
> My apologies if this has been asked and answered previously, but I've
> been unable to find a solution by trawling the mailing list archives.
>
> I'm attempting to render APBS electrostatic potentials using Tachyon.
> Although the RWB coloring shows up fine in the graphical window, when I
> render it the surface is colored solid white.
>
> The snapshot gives the proper coloring, and I know that Tachyon works
> fine otherwise. My guess is that this has something to do with the fact
> that the coloring for the surface potentials is controlled in the
> trajectory tab of the Representations menu, but I'm not sure how to fix
> it. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
>
> Jason Winget 

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