Displaying sidechains in PyMol? (Or other stick & cartoon combo?) Turn cartoon sidechain helper on!

Common PyMol problems to avoid when mixing sticks & cartoons...
If you want to show sticks in the context of cartoon, you typically just want to show the side chain as sticks, so turn on cartoon sidechain helper (under settings → cartoon) in the upper toolbar. Then, if you select show → sticks, it will just show the sidechain as sticks, connected to a cartoon backbone.
You can set this in command line as well. It’s
set cartoon_side_chain_helper, on (or 1)
Alternatively, use show → sidechain → sticks
If you do want to show the backbone, then hide the cartoon (hide → cartoon)
If you’re having issues with connecting the adjoining cartoon backbone to a stick backbone, select the neighboring residue(s) that were cartoon, select show → main chain → sticks (or show → sticks, then hide → sidechain)
P.S Huge thanks to Rico Acevedo for help with this last point!
P.P.S. If side chain helper doesn’t seem to be doing anything, try restarting PyMol (after saving your session of course!)
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[@alirezahekmati7632]

Hello from iran!
This is so cool!
Thank you for sharing it on youtube!

[@thebumblingbiochemist]

My pleasure! Thanks!