Difference between revisions of "Making images for publication using vmd"
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*Change both occurrences of %s to "plot" in the render window | *Change both occurrences of %s to "plot" in the render window | ||
*Render once | *Render once | ||
| − | *Edit resolution in plot. | + | *Edit resolution in plot.bat by using the following bat script: |
"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\sed" "s/Resolution 1024 712/Resolution 2048 1424/" | "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\sed" "s/Resolution 1024 712/Resolution 2048 1424/" | ||
today\plot.dat > today\temp.dat | today\plot.dat > today\temp.dat | ||
Latest revision as of 20:55, 12 October 2010
To make publication quality image using vmd do the following steps:
- Load VMD state of the Molecule.
- Go to File -> Render -> Tachyon
- Change both occurrences of %s to "plot" in the render window
- Render once
- Edit resolution in plot.bat by using the following bat script:
"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\sed" "s/Resolution 1024 712/Resolution 2048 1424/"
today\plot.dat > today\temp.dat
"C:\Program Files\University of Illinois\VMD\tachyon_WIN32.exe" -aasamples 8 -trans_vmd
-mediumshade today\temp.dat -format BMP -o today\plot.bmp
- You should change the resolution to be a multiple of the current resolution.
- eg 1024X742 -> 2048X1484
- This script also re-renders the image in to a bitmap file called plot.bmp.
- Open plot.bmp in a picture editor and convert to png
