[PyMOL] Super-smooth surfaces

[Stephen G. <ste...@us...>]

Hi there,

I am making a figure in which I would like an extremely smooth
molecular surface (I just want the protein as a blob with little to no
definition of surface features).

I tried setting the probe radius to a larger value:
 set solvent_radius, 8
but this gives rise to ugly artefacts on the surface ('triangles' of
surface seem to be missing).  There seems to be a whole raft of
different settings for fine-tuning surfaces (surface_carve_*,
surface_trim_*, etc) but I am afraid I do not know what they do and
have been unable to find documentation on them.

How can I make a surface happy (fully connected) after having set the
probe radius way up?

Thanks,

Stephen

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Stephen Graham
Crystallography Group
School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences
University of Sydney