Re: [PyMOL] Outlines thickness

[Gianluca T. <gia...@gm...>]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your response.
As I imagined there isn't an easy way of doing this. I'll play around with
settings and try to find a good compromise.



On Thu, 7 May 2020, 17:02 h. adam steinberg, <h.a...@gm...>
wrote:

> I also use this feature for illustrations and would love to find a better
> way of controlling the outline thickness. Could anyone fill us in on the
> history of this feature?
>
> In Chimera black outline is just a simple slider and it’s super easy to
> use. You just move the slider up and down and it shows you the black
> outline thickness without even having to render the image.
>
> In PyMOL you can do a couple of things:
> 1. increasing the rendering size (more pixels in X and Y) will decrease
> the thickness of the black outline (and infilling).
> Decreasing the rendering size will make the black outline thicker.
> Note however that the detail/quality of the image is better with higher
> resolution and worse with lower resolution.
>
> 2. Change the ray_trace_gain. the default setting is 0.12.
> Setting this to 1 will give you more black, but it’s not great (black
> infill is worse in many areas) and it depends on the resolution you choose
> in X and Y.
> Setting this to 0 will give you less black, but it’s not great (infill
> will be removed but so will many of the black outlines) and it depends on
> the resolution you choose in X and Y.  0.06 works fairly good at 1500dpi
> for less black and less infill.
>
> 3. Setting the Ray_trace_slope_factor higher, will also reduce the infill
> black. 0.9 Ray_trace_slope_factor and ray_trace_gain of 0.2 at 1500dpi
> looks fairly good.
>
> It seems that PyMOL doesn’t have a way to easily control the ray traced
> black outline.
>
> > On May 6, 2020, at 10:47 AM, Gianluca Tomasello <gia...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > is there a proper way to increase outlines thickness in PyMol?
> >
> > I noticed that increasing ray_trace_gain setting outlines are drawn
> thicker but increasing this setting increases also the number of outlines.
> >
> > Is there a way to increase thickness without increasing the outlines
> number?
> > _______________________________________________
> > PyMOL-users mailing list
> > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pym...@li...
> > Unsubscribe:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pymol/lists/pymol-users/unsubscribe
>
>