[PyMOL] volume rendering in PyMOL 1.5

[Anatoliy V. <Ana...@mt...>]

Greetings,

We have recently purchased the incentive version of PyMOL, and have
started working on volume rendering of the electron density data that
we generate with our own code based on wavefunctions calculated
in quantum chemistry software (Gaussian09, GAMESS etc.)

There are couple of questions the we would like to ask:

1. We are able to create volume rendering sessions as shown in the videos
posted on PyMOL website, but when we save a session as .pse file, and try
to re-open it again, it does not actually render data until we press a 'Volume' button in the
external GUI. The problem is that we need to render these images on our
hyperwall production nodes, where mouse is not available. Is there any way
to get PyMOL to automatically reproduce a volume rendering session
from a .pse file ?

2. In ideal case, we would also like to run volume rendering from a .pml script. 
Could we possibly get a comprehensive list of all PyMOL commands and
their usage instructions related to volume rendering? 
Specifically, we would like to have all (or as many as possible) volume
rendering-related functions that are currently available through the
external gui ('Volume' option) to be available via .pml scripts.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best Regards,
Anatoliy Volkov.
Department of Chemistry
Middle Tennessee State University