I am using version 13c15043ab0897fd38fd6a897f08e8ce.
When I open Beginner Puzzle 13: Saposin D or Beginner Puzzle 12: E-Coli, these proteins are displayed off-center. In fact, I can't see Puzzle 13 unless I move the zoom way out (so the molecule is tiny). Then when I zoom in, the image moves off toward (and then beyond) the upper right corner of the screen. I have an ATI Radeon video card, and am running under WinXP SP3 with all patches. I have tried disabling hardware acceleration per the FAQ, but no effect.
Can we please add a control that translates (shifts) the position of the molecule; perhaps the arrow keys on the keyboard, since the mouse is already used for rotation.
Under current conditions, I am unable to work on these two proteins, because I can't zoom close enough to see sufficient detail. Curiously, when I first started working on E-Coli, I could see it; something I did during the manipulations must have caused it to move off-center.
Never mind; I just discovered right-click plus drag to fix the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.
in case this also helps, if you press Q it should center the protein for you!
Perhaps, when a protein is totally or mostly off-screen for over a minute or so, the game could automatically re-center it? Or at least a tutorial pop-up could tell the user to press the "Home" key.
It seems to be a frequently asked question - at least judging from chat exchanges.
I have Nvidia graphic card (Quadro FX 580 on HP Z400, with updated driver) and tried the suggestion (in the FAQs) for reducing the hardware acceleration. Not a good thing. Killed every process running on my machine. And it was a messy shutdown, very messy. Maybe that it not always/generically a good suggestion.
You wouldn't want this because the Q command has extra functionality: if you mouse over a segment or sidechain, then press Q, it chooses that segment as the centre point for the display, and lets subsequent rotation (with right click and drag) also be about this segment. When placing rubber bands from a segment, this extra functionality can be useful and you wouldn't want the display to automatically centre whilst you are doing this. If you want to centre about a point, mouse there and press Q and it does it. If you lose your protein press home.
"Q" or "home" to center view point. Graphics drivers have issues sometimes… Closing.
