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7443	Make easy shadowed transparent surface mode	Tom Goddard	Tom Goddard	"It is common to show transparent surfaces (cryoEM or molecular) with an atomic model inside.  The transparent surface does not cast shadows by default so the surface shows no ambient shadows and so depth perception is poor.  Ambient shadows on transparent surfaces can be made with the material command transparentCastShadows option and look very good.  But they make the interior atomic model black.  But the shadow casting can be turned off for the interior atomic model.  That combination can give a nice appearance.  But no one can figure it out.  It would be great to add some easy to use way (toolbar button?) to enable that type of lighting.  Maybe it would remove shadows from all atomic models and add cast transparent shadows.  Would also need an easy way to revert to normal lighting.
"	enhancement	assigned	moderate		Graphics				Elaine Meng				all	ChimeraX