Difference between revisions of "Transparency"

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===Selected Surface Elements===
 
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Simple example showing how to do partial surface transparency
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Simple example showing how to do partial surface transparency.  This allows different selections to have different transparencies on the same object (or also on different objects).
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Image:Diffy_transp.png|Different transparency settings on different objects.
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Image:Diffy_transp2.png|Different transparency settings on the same object.
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Revision as of 15:44, 9 July 2008

Overview

Transparency is used to adjust the transparency of Surfaces. (For other transparencies in PyMOL, see Cartoon Transparency, Sphere Transparency, and Stick Transparency.

Usage

set transparency, F, selection

where F is a floating point number in the range [0.0 - 1.0], where selection is the selected surface to apply the change to (for examples, see below).

For the value of F, 1.0 will be an invisible and 0.0 a completely solid surface.


Examples

Whole Surface

Change the transparency of the whole surface to 50%.

# show all surfaces with 50% transparency.
set transparency, 0.5


Selected Surface Elements

Simple example showing how to do partial surface transparency. This allows different selections to have different transparencies on the same object (or also on different objects).

# load a random protein
fetch 1rty

# set the partial transparency for the selected residues
set transparency, 0.65, i. 1-100