"urmila" <toi### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Hello all!
> I am a new to this group and am delighted at the prospect of interacting with
> you are smart and creative people.  I an new to using POVRay and am trying to
> use it to give a 'shine' to a protein molecule available in RasMol format.
> Would anyone know the commands I should use in RasMol to obtain a POVRay
> compatible output file that can then be used by POVray v 3.6?  If so, please
> let me know so I get unstuck!

First of all, hello and welcome!

I've never used RasMol, but from a search of the online manual it seems that
there is a 'write' command with a 'povray3' option. Some of these docs appear
to date back to the mid-90s (there's also a POV-Ray2.0 option!) so I expect
this generates a POV-Ray 3.1 scene file. If so, putting

#version 3.1;

at the top of the output file should work. The manual also mentioned that
'povray3' was still under development, so if it doesn't work properly I suppose
it's worth trying 'povray', with #version 2.0; instead.

Assuming RasMol can produce valid POV-Ray files, you'll probably want to tweak
the textures and lighting yourself to improve the final image. If so, it's
probably wise to have a good look through the POV-Ray docs and tutorials to get
the hang of things (if you haven't already done so :)).

Good luck!

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