Improve molecule visuals

[saschlac]

Molecules towards the rear of the field of view should have different shading than molecules near the front of the field of view - It's difficult to tell a molecule is moving away from the camera.

[CMahaff]

We are now using cyllinders instead of lines for the bonds, which makes the Molecules look much nicer. What do you think of the changes? Is there more we need to do visually? (other than getting everything rendering of course)

[saschlac]

I think the cylinders add a lot, I like it. The shadows are still really dramatic though. Is there any way to change the lighting so the shadows are more even?

[saschlac]

I made some changes to the lighting and I think it looks a lot better. Is there any way to reduce the reflective quality of the atoms? They're very "shiny". Also, I reduced the distance between the bonds for double bonds. Before the double bonds were like triple bonds without the middle bond.

One other thing I noticed is that sometimes the bonds have different sized gaps (See screenshot, the double bond at 10:30 in the center ring has a different gap than the double bonds at 3:00 and 7:00).

[CMahaff]

Just updating: this is definitely possible by changing the properties of the material used on the molecules, which is just the default right now. We are re-working the renderer right now to improve the parsing, and I'll make sure I change that when we switch over.