Re: [PyMOL] Setting transparency for CGOs

[<tan...@st...>]

Michael,

thanks for your reply, this works fine for me. However, I thought there is a
nicer solution on setting the transparency for cgo's after creation.

Regards,

Yusuf

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Yusuf Tanrikulu
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tan...@bi...

Quoting Michael George Lerner <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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>>> #
>>> # --
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>>> # Department of Biosciences
>>> # Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univerity Frankfurt
>>> # Siesmayerstrasse 70
>>> # 60326 Frankfurt am Main
>>> # - Germany -
>>> # tan...@bi...
>>> #
>>> #
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