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!
Thankyou so much in advance for all your help!  I look forward to participating
and contributing to this newgroup in future :)

Urmila.

Post a reply to this message

"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!

Post a reply to this message

"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!
> Thankyou so much in advance for all your help!  I look forward to participating
> and contributing to this newgroup in future :)
>
> Urmila.

I have used PDB files (protein data bank) to make POVRay scenes. I think you
need to download  a program called POVChem
(http://www.chemicalgraphics.com/PovChem/). I am not sure if RasMol has the
capability of exporting a POV file.

POVChem is really good at generating a POV scene file. You can set the camera
position and orient the molecule in space. After you get the POV file, you can
tweak the finish of the molecule to make it more reflective or whatever.

Post a reply to this message

On Wed,  4 Feb 2009 03:22:23 EST, "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!
>Thankyou so much in advance for all your help!  I look forward to participating
>and contributing to this newgroup in future :)
>
>Urmila.
>

Have a look at 

http://spdbv.vital-it.ch/

remember Google is your friend

Post a reply to this message