[PyMOL] Color backbone amide nitrogen

[Santrupti N. <sn...@uc...>]

Hi,

I want to color backbone nitrogen atoms together with side-chain nitrogen atoms. The side-chain nitrogens get the color, however the backbone nitrogens don’t (see below; I have selected backbone nitrogens). I tried some options such as

select bb, name n
color by element 



But, the backbone nitrogens aren’t getting colored. Is there a way to color them without showing them as spheres?

Thanks a lot.