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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 09:50:19 CDT

Nicolas,
  Before you use the "render" command in VMD, you'll want to redefine
the background color in VMD so you don't have to edit the output produced
by Tachyon or POV-Ray. To do this you'd use a command like this:
  color Display Background iceblue

Let us know if you need more help with this.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:20:07PM +0200, Nicolas Sapay wrote:
> hello everybody,
>
> I am trying to render VMD scene in batch mode trough TCL script with a
> white background. When I use Raster3D, all is OK. But, when I use
> Tachyon or POVray, the background becomes gray. In fact the background
> is indeed set to gray (RGB 0.9, 0.9, 0.9) in scene files (*.dat/*.pov).
> How can I solve this problem? Of course I can use "tr" or "awk" to
> translate the wrong Tachyon/POVray line in batch mode, but I am not sure
> it is really tricky.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nicolas
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