Re: [PyMOL] Lighting script request

Thank you, Jason. I have completely missed this functionality!

Vitaly

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Jason Vertrees
<jas...@sc...> wrote:
> 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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