Thanx guys... declaring the whole inc-file as a union worked fine. Must
admit I havn't tried the other tips, but I'm looking through them and
again... thanx

/Nigo

"Charles C" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> One way is you can wrap a union around your include file as follows:
>
> #declare Protein_1 = union {   #include "Bunch_O_Triangles.inc"  }
> object{Protein_1  rotate <?,?,?> translate <?,?,?>  }
>
> You might consider using your editor to do a search and replace-all for all
> those texture statements, if they're all the same, and replace them with
> nothing or a whitespace character... and then just apply one copy of the
> texture to the union or the object.
>
> "Nigo" <hej### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > I'm trying to generate a picture with two proteins (two seperate *.pov and
> > *.inc files) obtained from swiss pdb-viewer.
> >
> > The proteinstructures are defined by thousands of smooth_triangles in the
> > form
> >
> > smooth_triangle
> >
{<19.880,-14.362,-31.678><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<19.909,-14.498,-31.821><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<19.999,-14.413,-31.83
0>
> <-
> > 0.568,0.536,-0.625>texture{pigment{
> > colour red 1.00 green 1.00 blue 1.00} finish{ RIBBON_FINISH }}}
> > smooth_triangle
> >
{<19.880,-14.362,-31.678><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<19.999,-14.413,-31.830><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<20.043,-14.309,-31.78
0>
> <-
> > 0.568,0.536,-0.625>texture{pigment{
> > colour red 1.00 green 1.00 blue 1.00} finish{ RIBBON_FINISH }}}
> > smooth_triangle
> >
{<19.880,-14.362,-31.678><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<20.043,-14.309,-31.780><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<20.025,-14.225,-31.69
1>
> <-
> > 0.568,0.536,-0.625>texture{pigment{
> > colour red 1.00 green 1.00 blue 1.00} finish{ RIBBON_FINISH }}}
> > smooth_triangle
> >
{<19.880,-14.362,-31.678><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<20.025,-14.225,-31.691><-0.568,0.536,-0.625>,<19.951,-14.193,-31.59
7>
> <-
> > 0.568,0.536,-0.625>texture{pigment{
> > colour red 1.00 green 1.00 blue 1.00} finish{ RIBBON_FINISH }}}
> >
> > ..... but they are not defined as an object, so I can't use a
> > transform/translate command to position them. If I include both proteins in
> > the same pov-file they will be positioned on top of each other, which is not
> > pretty ;-)
> >
> > I've tried enclosing each protein in a mesh with:
> > #declare A0_shape=mesh{
> > all the smooth_triangles...
> > }
> >
> > but it doesn't work :-( How do I enclose each protein in it own object so I
> > can position them relative to each other?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Nigo

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