Re: [ccp4bb]: Drawing dashed bonds in bobscript with rendering

["Warren L. DeLano" <warren@sunesis.com>]

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If you're having trouble generating rendered images with BobScript, you
might want to try PyMOL (a free open-source package).  It does most of
what Bobscript/Raster3d can do (very nice riboons, e-density, and
"carved" density about certain atoms) but includes a WYSIWG interface
to the built-in ray tracer while still to being 100% scriptable.  What
takes you hours to do with BobScript is accomplishable in much less time
using PyMOL.  Plus, PyMOL is also a full real-time molecular graphics and
editing package.

And yes, dashed bonds will render just fine in PyMOL.

http://www.pymol.org

 On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Michal Harel wrote:

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> Dear all,  If you have succeeded in drawing dashed bonds in bobscript with
> rendering please let me know.  Following the example in the documentation
> results in dashed lines in the postscript output file, but solid lines in
> the raster3D rendered output.
> 
> Thanks - Michal.
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