id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking notify_on_close platform project 6252 perframe surface zone keeps showing whole surface J.R.Lewandowski@… Tom Goddard "From: ""Lewandowski, Jozef"" via ChimeraX-users"" Subject: [chimerax-users] Surface zone and movie recording Date: February 25, 2022 at 5:42:24 AM PST Hi, I would like to use “surface zone” command to visualise a substrate channel in an animation of an MD trajectory. For that I would like to regenerate the surface every frame with “perframe”. However, if I do that when I record the movie the entire surface (instead of just the selected zone) will flash before the zone is displayed. Is there any way so that only the surface zone will be displayed from frame to frame without the entire surface flashing? I essentially just would like to follow the changes to the substrate channel without any distractions. Thank you, Józef Elaine: I can reproduce this problem with a small test case, ChimeraX commands open 1plx coordset true perframe ""surf; surf zone #1 near S"" ... looks OK when you are just sitting on one frame. But when you drag the slider the whole surface flashes, and when I click the ""play"" button on the slider, all I see is the whole surface bopping around. Still the same problem if I only use ""surface"" once and just put ""surf zone"" in the perframe. " defect closed moderate Surface limitation Elaine Meng all ChimeraX