The default organic colours aren't bad, but it would be nice if the inorganics matched Mercury by default, so I don't have oddness when flipping back and forth between them. I like how the mandatory quadrants are just a texture on the ellipsoids. Much better, though now there is an ugly blue background and no option to change it I'd rather not have to dig through POV-ray source code. I really prefer the rotating scheme that Mercury uses. One downside is that of all the programs it was hardest to get the molecule aligned in OLEX2. I like how the mandatory lines are clearly a texture, not a weird bump on the surface, though I'd like them to be a bit thicker. Overall doesn't look bad, but you can see the jaggedness of the lines A nice antialised POV-ry rending would help this. You can't easily put in labels with Mercury: The orientation of them goes crazy when you render them.Īnnoying border- Sure there is a way to turn it off, but the options are not well labelled.
Also putting them in with the ORTEP style changes the bonds to black lines rather then bicolour lines I'm sure there is a decently easy way to undo that though. The mandatory publishing quadrants look like they are sitting on the ellipsoids, rather then a part of them. VERY nice lines, due to POV-Ray rendering. Default white background blends in with posters/power points. Crazily easy most of the defaults are sane This is pretty near the default output. ORTEP3 has the most potential, but is way, way more work then I want to do, since it doesn't have any remotely sane defaults.
#Ortep xshell plus#
OLEX2 makes better images, but the default colours aren't very good, so that is more work, plus you get a terrible blue background in POV-ray, so you can have nice gradients, lots of work edition a POV-ray file, or jagged, un-antialiased lines. The conclusion I came to is that Mercury + POV-ray gives the best 0 effort output, if you don't need to label anything.
#Ortep xshell software#
I was taking a break from a presentation I was working on, and wrote up quick reviews of the (near) default output of all the crystallography software I have at hand.
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