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From: ABEL Stephane 175950 (Stephane.ABEL_at_cea.fr)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2010 - 12:18:26 CST

Many thanks John for your advices and the links.
 
An additional question: as said in my previous message, i can generate a *.pyg file, however this file gives a *tiff file with a low resolution 504X480. It is possible by using the with render command in VMD to generate natively a *.pyg file with a higher resolution, say 800 x 600 ? If yes, how ?
 
Thank you again for your help
 
Stéphane
 

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De: John Stone [mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
Date: ven. 03/12/2010 18:55
À: ABEL Stephane 175950
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Objet : Re: vmd-l: use gelato render with VMD 1.8.7 for movie

Hi,
  You can write simple scripts to do this type of thing, you'll want to
look at the movie rendering example scripts here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/script_library/

If you just want to be able to use ambient occlusion lighting, you can
actually do that much more easily using the built-in Tachyon renderer,
as described here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/minitutorials/tachyonao/
and here:
  http://bionano.physics.illinois.edu/Tutorials/
  http://bionano.physics.illinois.edu/Tutorials/tachyonGuide.pdf
  http://bionano.physics.illinois.edu/Tutorials/tachyonGuide.tar.gz

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

Also, Tachyon works automatically with the VMD movie maker plugin
so you wouldn't have to write your own scripts.
 

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:22:36PM +0100, ABEL Stephane 175950 wrote:
> Hi VMD users,
>
> I would like to make a movie of my MD trajectory with by using gelato render available in VMD 1.8.7 like in this site http://molgraph3d.blogspot.com/2008/01/vmd-gelato-script-for-molecular-movie.html.
>
> I can create a *.pyg file for one frame with render command available in File->File Render Controls -> Render Command. But How to do the same things for frames taken from MD ?
>
> Moreover, to convert the pyg file to image i use the gelato program dowloaded from NVIDIA. The tiff file obtained has 504X480 resolution. How to increase image the resolution say 800 X 600
>
> Thank you in advance for your advices
>
> Stéphane
>
> 

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