Re: [PyMOL] Reducing VRML file size

[Hurt, D. (NIH/N. [E] <dar...@ni...>]

Gzip it and rename the gzipped file with a "wrl" extension. The VRML standard specifies that the file can be gzipped and still be readable.

You could also turn down the "quality" settings for "sticks" "cylinders" "cartoons" etc.

Good luck!
Darrell


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From: Muench, Robert [mailto:Rob...@pe...]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 05:22 AM
To: pym...@li... <pym...@li...>
Subject: [PyMOL] Reducing VRML file size

Hi folks,

we are currently facing problems with large VRML files. We have a quite complex .pse file with several molecules in surface representation. Once we save this .pse file as VRML it has a size of about 1.2 gigabyte. We could reduce the file size to about 700mb after combining all molecules but the file size is still too large for our downstream processing. We have already set surface_quality to 0 but this did not further reduce the file size.
We would be grateful for any suggestions.

Best

Rob