From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 30 2020 - 00:19:15 CDT

The existing versions of Tachyon don't support transparent backgrounds,
but this is something I plan to add in a future version.

Best regards,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:56:34PM +0530, Soumik Ghosh wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been trying to map an electrostatic potential to an electron
> density of a molecule. Afterwards I want to render it. Since I cannot get
> POVRAY 3.6 to render the colours, I am using Tachyon. How do you get a
> transparent background with Tachyon as you would with the POVRAY +UA
> command?
> Thanking you in advance,
> Soumik Ghosh

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