VMD User's Guide

• rocking on/off: Enable/disable persistent rotation of the scene with the mouse.• stoprotation: Stop any mouse-initiated scene rotation as well as any rocking initiated withthe ”rock” command.8.3.23 playStart executing text commands from a specified file, instead of from the console. When the end ofthe file is reached, VMD will resume reading commands from the previous source. This commandmay be nested, so commands being read from one file can include commands to read other files.• filename: Execute commands from filename.8.3.24 quitSame as exit.8.3.25 renderOutput the currently displayed image (scene) to a file.• list: List the available rendering methods.• method filename: Render the global scene to filename using method and execute the defaultcommand, where method can be one of the following:– ART– Tachyon– TachyonInternal– snapshot– POV3– PostScript– Radiance– Raster3D– Rayshade– Renderman– STL– VRML-1– VRML-2• method filename command: Render the global scene to filename, then execute ‘command’.Any %s in ‘command’ are replaced by the filename (up to 5).• options method: Get the default command string.• options method command: Set new default command.• default method: Get the original default command.112