Re: [PyMOL] Setting transparency for CGOs

[Michael G. L. <ml...@um...>]

>> Quoting tan...@st...:
>> 
>> # Hi everybody,
>> #
>> # i've just created many CGOs, which show up solid surfaces like spheres 
>> and
>> # ellipsoids. Is it possible to set the transparency of some CGO's to
>> i.e. 0.5
>> # and leave the others solid?
>> # I've checked out the reference and the manual, and found something like:
>> #
>> # set transparency=0.5, object
>> #
>> # But this actually does not work for CGO's.
>> # Any ideas....
>> #
>> # Yusuf

The last time I looked at this, it seemed like the easiest (only?) way to 
do this was to tweak the transparency at creation time.  So, I typically 
have functions that look like this:

def makeSphere(name,x,y,z,r,transparency=0,...):
    ...
    obj = []
    ...
    obj.extend([cgo.ALPHA,1-transparency])
    obj.extend([cgo.SPHERE,x,y,z,r])
    ...
    cmd.load_cgo(obj,name,1)

I don't know how to change it later, though.

Hope that helps,

-michael

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