Re: [PyMOL] pymol and povray

[Robert C. <rl...@k2...>]

* Schubert, Carsten <Car...@3d...> [2002-10-23 16:59] wrote:
> Don't know about MACs but this works on PCs and SGIs:
> -------------------------------------------------
> Exporting Povray scripts from PyMol
>  
> 
> The choice of the renderer is defined by the variable "ray_default_renderer". A
> value of 0 points to the internal renderer, a value of 1 creates a povray file
> called "tmp_pymol.pov" in the current directory.
> 
> To change the setting use:
> 
>         cmd.set('ray_default_renderer',1)
> 
> Alternatively use this script:
> 
>         util.ray_shadows('heavy')
>         (header,data) = cmd.get_povray()
>         file=open('povray.pov','w')
>         file.write(header)
>         file.write(data)
>         file.close()
> 
> 
I definitely prefer the second idea, because I like to tweek the
povray.pov file to get the best output.

Cheers,
Robert
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