Re: [PyMOL] appending states to objects

Am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2003 23:05 schrieb Vajdos, Felix:
> Is there a way to append states to objects within pymol?
>
> Here's the scenario:
> Now, each animation is 50 frames (states) long, and runs fine.  What I
> would like to do is at the end of each animation sequence to simply hav=
e
> the final state rock back and forth, as in with the "rock" button on th=
e
> Tcl window. However, I do not want to have the whole thing rocking duri=
ng
> the animation.

Dear Felix,

Though it may sound a little like advertisement, i recommend the rTools=20
package for PyMOL. (http://www.rubor.de/bioinf). =20
Here, you can issue some commands assigning states to frames, like

mvRot 1-500:1-50,z,90
mvRot 501-1000:50-1,z,-90
Which will let states 1 to 50 be shown across the first 500 frames (howev=
er,=20
state 50 is shown only in the last frame). In the second 500 frames, the=20
order is reversed, i.e. the sequence plays backwards.

You can also simply assign commands to frames, leaving the state untouche=
d:
mvSinmove 1001-1100,x,10
mvSinset 1001,1100,transparency,0.0,1.0

To play the animation, just type:
movie

And yes, you can get the structure rocking with these commands.
I apologize it does not run perfectly yet, as a bugfix release of rTools =
is=20
about to appear within a week.

I hope that was not too confusing,

Kristian