Re: [PyMOL] Lighting script request

Hi Vitaly,

In our later versions of PyMOL there's a setting called "edit_light" that
controls which light may be moved by the mouse in 3-button Lights Mode. To
enable 3-button Lights Mode, just click Mouse > 3-Button Lights. Use
shift+mouse to move the light around.

To control which lights are being manipulated:

# let there be 3 lights

set light_count, 3

# move the second specular light

set edit_light, 2

Now, in 3-button Lights mode, the mouse will move light 2.

The default light is ambient which cannot be moved. If you have 3 lights on
(ambient and two specular), then you can move the two specular two lights
by setting edit_light to 1 or 2.

Cheers,

-- Jason


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:22 AM, V.V. <vv...@gm...> wrote:

> Occasionally I need to play around with the number of lights and their
> vectors to get nice rendering. It's not something I do often, so every
> time I need to scour through the mailing list to recall Pymol
> definitions of light sources (the page on "light" badly needs
> updating). So... Can someone write a script that would grab the light
> data from the settings and present it as a separate object? A reverse
> action, where dragging the points of the light vector would update the
> "lightX" values would also be nice.
>
> Thank you,
> Vitaly
>
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