What's new in QuteMol 0.4.1
Feb 19, 2010
- Minor Features:
- Now "Atom Rendering Tables" (ART) are accepted from the command line
- (with "-a " ).
- The ART file is a text file redefining colors and space-fill radii of
- atom elements, as well as defining new atom (or pseudoatom) types as needed.
- This is done to add extra flexibility, making QuteMol more usable as a
- viewer for other applications
New in QuteMol 0.4 (Feb 19, 2010)
- New Features:
- Color per chain selectable.
- (rather then per atom). Random color schemas can be cycled.
- Export of GIF animation
- Is is now possible to export GIF animations featuring the
- current model under inspections (useful for websites?)
- Minor Features:
- Progress bar shown during any long processing task (which can be cancelled)!
- Various minor speed improvements
- Save snapshot dialog to change the resolution of the fly
- Bugfixes:
- Link to Qutemol webpage fixed (now using wxWidgets v. 8.0)
- Fixed a bug that prevented some 2-letter atoms to be correctly understood
- Fixed the clipping plane bug (large molecules where shown as if cut in half)
- Various minor fixes
New in QuteMol 0.3 (Feb 19, 2010)
- New Features:
- On screen antialiasing.
- This improves visual quality, especially when
- using thin borders. Since it is only activated
- (by default) when the molecule is still this feature
- does not affect fps. You can disable this option by setting
- the STILL_QUALITY parameter equal to 100 in the
- configuration file "qutemol.cfg".
- Faster (lower quality) rendering option for slower computers.
- You can set a MOVING_QUALITY parameter lower than
- the default 100 in the configuration file "qutemol.cfg".
- If you do, QuteMol will feature a less sharp, but faster,
- rendering as long as you are roteting the molecule (and
- still show the crisp version when you stop moving it).
- Saving snapshots as PNG with transparent background.
- The saved images can have an alpha channel that allows
- high quality composition. You can select this option
- in the "save a snapshot" dialog by choosing the
- "Transparent PNG" file type.
- Texture autoresize.
- You no longer have to manually adapt the size of the texture
- to cope with the global illumination on larger molecules. Rather,
- you can specify the maximal texture size available on your card
- (the default value of 2048 is ok on most cards).
- Minor Features:
- Molecule name on titlebar.
- Molecule info on F1
- A couple new presets.
- Improvements:
- Border effect reworked.
- Their thickness is made somewhat scale dependent.
- They now work on ball'n'sticks and liquorice mode as well.
- Simplified settings. Improved performance
- Halo effect reworked.
- Added a few settings (strength, depth-awareness). Improved
- performance
- Better icon :)
- Bugfixes:
- Shapshot size
- Used to be halved (w.r.t. the setting specified in qutemol.cfg).
- Halos
- Minor visual error fixed (was most visible on smaller molecules).
- Fixed behavior on atom bonds.
- Dark bonds fixed
- On some molecule, some bonds would appear darker than it should
- Shadowmap sizes:
- Shadowmap used for global illumination is now decoupled from shadowmap
- used during rendering. This allows for much smaller settings for the former,
- leading to faster global illumination computation.
New in QuteMol 0.2 (Feb 19, 2010)
- Bugfixes (most notably snapshot tool fixed)
- New presets