Re: [PyMOL] rotation about an arbitrary vector?

[Kristian R. <kri...@be...>]

Dear Will,

You wrote:

> The camera
> movement I would like to do is a little more than simple rotations or
> spirals, so it would be very helpful to me to be able to rotate about
> an arbitrary vector, rather than just the principle axes, in mdo
> commands. Is there a way to do this? 

There is. The movie.py script does exactly this: camera movements. 
Basically, any movement can be achieved by adding x,y and z rotations.
You can specify how quick each axis is to be rotated and so on. Any 
camera movement can be smoothed, if You like.

http://www.rubor.de/bioinf/pymol_movie.html

As You wrote You are making movies of trajectories i assume that Your 
animation uses more than one state. Movie.py doesn't get alongt with 
them at the moment. This is because i don't know what would be useful.
If You want to go with movie.py, write me, and we'll get something on that.

Kristian