Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Testing Chimera's animation tool in conjunction with autoPACK. Very easy and fast and I highly recommend it for simple animation.
This 1.8 implementation has a few minor glitches at least with models this size. I think they plan to fix these very soon. There are some dark frames flashing in now and then when played in quicktime (youtube seems to fix that), the transparency is not animatable.
The on major issue is the speed and inability to render comfortably as a background task- not sure why you can drag much larger models around in realtime, but rendering to a movie takes 1-2 seconds per frame at the same resolution and seems to take over your entire computer... probably something to do with getting images off of the graphics card and into memory, but I think the developers have a few fixes in mind for this as well.
Make your own by checking out the tutorials I've posted on the subject:
autopack.org/documentation/tutorials/molecular-viewers
Testing Chimera's animation tool in conjunction with autoPACK. Very easy and fast and I highly recommend it for simple animation.
This 1.8 implementation has a few minor glitches at least with models this size. I think they plan to fix these very soon. There are some dark frames flashing in now and then when played in quicktime (youtube seems to fix that), the transparency is not animatable.
The on major issue is the speed and inability to render comfortably as a background task- not sure why you can drag much larger models around in realtime, but rendering to a movie takes 1-2 seconds per frame at the same resolution and seems to take over your entire computer... probably something to do with getting images off of the graphics card and into memory, but I think the developers have a few fixes in mind for this as well.
Make your own by checking out the tutorials I've posted on the subject:
autopack.org/documentation/tutorials/molecular-viewers
