Display dihedral angle in PyMOL
An alternative and better ways is to use the ‘distance’, ‘angle’ and ‘dihedral’ commands of ‘cmd’ object. Note not using ‘get_distance’, ‘get_angle’ and ‘get_dihedral’, they are for different purpose. The syntax is e.g. ‘dihedral dih_obj_name, id 1, id 2, id 3, id4’, i.e. giving an object name and four atom selections. (In this example, we use atom IDs for atom selections. Other syntax for atom selection should work too.) Using this method, the measurement will be automatically updated while playing the movie