How to apply normal-, gloss-, occlusion-, specularity- and displacement map on one cycles material? I try to apply all these textures to one material in cycles. These are all my textures:    My attempt (no idea at all how occlusion map works)
How to properly hook up various maps types in Cycles? I created some texture maps in MindTex to use in Blender, but I can't figure out how to properly hook them up. The maps I have:  - Diffuse  - Normal  - Height   - Specular   - Gloss   - Self Illumination  - Reflection  - Ambient Occlusion   MindTex (left) vs. Blender (right)  As you can clearly see it's a pretty big difference.  is my material node setup in Blender. In the examples I don't actually use self illumination or reflection images, but including this in the answer would be helpful.
Can we get an alternative to the "That solved my problem!" button that doesn't make the presumption that it solved my problem? I.e. "Yes, that's the problem I have."  In some cases, SE (et. al.) answer something, but the answer really doesn't solve it, it was a "cop-out" -- a "we know there's a problem, but there's currently no fix or workaround". Can we get a button that indicates that "Yes, I acknowledge I have that same problem, and I may have even tried those solutions, but it's not solved by any means." button or something?  I get the purpose of it - make it more friendly and easier to remove duplicates, but I refuse to say "That solved my problem!" if I still have a problem (mostly on principle). I'd rather have a "Ah yes, that's my issue! But, it seems like there's no actual solution there."  As an example: EL expressions not evaluated in JSP One of the assumptions I make as GM is that the players should always be in the spotlight.  Sometimes the players find themselves in a situation where they watch NPCs speak to each other.  I don't like using this kind of situation, because it forces the players to watch me talk to myself and that turns them from active participants into an audience.  Usually I handle it by avoiding the situation.  I try not to write scenes that the players watch.  Instead the players speak to the NPCs one at a time.  When I do come across an exchange between NPCs I opt to summarize the conversation instead of acting it out.    I don't like this limitation though.  It gets a little contrived when all conversations in the game feature 5 PCs and 1 NPC.  Any suggestions? Either how to avoid doing it, or how to effectively role play a conversation between two (or more) NPCs that the characters may or may not be interacting with?   How do you keep clear which character is speaking? How do you make sure that the conversation feels like a real one and not like one person playing both roles? Is this a dismissal by hit wicket? Consider the following situation,     A batsman's bat breaks while hitting the ball after which a piece of the   bat flies in the air, hits the stumps and the bails fall down.   Is this a dismissal by hit wicket? What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition? I have 200 MB assigned for the /boot partition.  Whenever I try to update the kernel, I receive an error message that basically states /boot is full.  What can I do to cleanup /boot and remove/backup the older kernels? Beta regression of proportion data including 1 and 0 Why aren't my PIR security lights working through my window? How to run specific test cases in GoogleTest SQL Server Dependencies Is there an easy way to chase down table/stored procedure/function dependencies in SQL Server 2005+?  I've inherited a giant application with lots of tables and even more stored procedures and functions that are long and interlinked.    At the end of the day is there a way to build a dependency tree?  Ideally what I'm looking for goes in both directions:  For a table/procedure - what depends ON it?:  Show me all the stored procedures that eventually reference it (ideally in a tree view such that sub procedures nest out to the bigger procedures that call them)  For a procedure - what does IT depend on?:  Show me all the procedures and tables that a given procedure will (or could) touch when running.  It seems this tool shouldn't be that hard to make and would be incredibly useful for DB maintenance generally.  Is anyone aware of such a thing?  If this doesn't exist, why the heck not?  The built-in functionality in Management Studio is nice but the information does not appear to be complete at all. This has been discussed in at least one  before, but not directly addressed, at least not on this site.  Is there any actual connection between blood lines and Force sensitivity? We certainly see hints of that with both of Anakin's children showing Force sensitivity.  Do patterns like that show in other families?  Is there any indiction that Force sensitivity can be hereditary in some species or in some families?  (I'm not asking if it is always hereditary or always following blood lines, but is there enough to show this can be a notable factor in whether someone is sensitive or not.) What are the limits on how I can cast, change, and retract votes? invalid conversion from 'int' to 'char *' Position an exampleblock in front of content I need to position an example block:  \begin{exampleblock}{}    Proposed and implemented \end{exampleblock}   Without disturbing other frame content. Something like:  -------------------- ------------- -------------------- -------------------------- -----------    --/============\--------- -----|            |-- -----| Proposed   |-------- -----| and        |-------- -----| implemented|------ -----\============/ -------------------- --------------------------    -----------------   Let it overlay the text behind it. And not to be taken into account during layouting.  Update The Claudio Fiandrino's way is not apropriate to me, because, i need an Itemize environment working inside, and it would be great, if block style is the same as theme-style. This comes from a brain teaser but I'm not sure I can solve it:     You are in a rowing boat on a lake. A large heavy rock is also in the boat. You heave the rock overboard. It sinks to the bottom of the lake. What happens to the water level in the lake? Does it rise, fall or stay the same?   I'd say that the water level drops, because when you drop the stone in the lake, the water level rises according to the volume of the stone, BUT the water level decreases by a volume of water weighting the stone's weight, when you take it off the boat.  Is that correct? Why the Principle of Least Action? Is it possible to insert multiple records in Salesforce using cURL at the same time? When cutting/copying some cells to paste them into another sheet/page, sometimes Excel freezes/locks up and fades out. At the top toolbar it says in brackets "not responding".  Eventually, I must click 'X' to close the program. It offers to wait for the program to respond, but never does – it just does nothing until I finally close it, where it offers to recover files etc.   Is there an issue with memory here? What can I do to stop it locking up? What's the Linux equivalent to Windows batch files? I have a batch file which I use to create an .apk file on my Windows machine. Now I need to be able to create the .apk file in Ubuntu but I don't know how translate my .bat file to a script to be able to run it on Ubuntu.  Below is the batch file which works fine on Windows.  Will you please give me some hints on how I can run it on Ubuntu?  @echo off set PAUSE_ERRORS=0 :user_configuration  :: Path to Flex SDK  set FLEX_SDK=C:\sdk\flex_sdk_4.5.1.21328  :: Path to Android SDK set ANDROID_SDK=C:\sdk\android  :validation if not exist "%FLEX_SDK%\bin" goto flexsdk if not exist "%ANDROID_SDK%\platform-tools" goto androidsdk goto succeed  :validation if not exist "%FLEX_SDK%\bin" goto flexsdk if not exist "%ANDROID_SDK%\platform-tools" goto androidsdk goto succeed  :flexsdk echo. echo ERROR: incorrect path to Flex SDK echo. if %PAUSE_ERRORS%==1 pause exit  :androidsdk echo. echo ERROR: incorrect path to Android SDK in 'bat\SetupSDK.bat' echo.  if %PAUSE_ERRORS%==1 pause exit  :succeed set PATH=%PATH%;%FLEX_SDK%\bin set PATH=%PATH%;%ANDROID_SDK%\platform-tools  :: Android packaging set AND_CERT_NAME="PeymanApp" set AND_CERT_PASS=fd set AND_CERT_FILE=cert\SampleApp.p12 set AND_ICONS=icons/android  set AND_SIGNING_OPTIONS=-storetype pkcs12 -keystore "%AND_CERT_FILE%" -storepass     %AND_CERT_PASS%  :: Application descriptor set APP_XML=application.xml  :: Files to package set APP_DIR=bin set FILE_OR_DIR=-C %APP_DIR% .  :: Your application ID (must match &lt;id&gt; of Application descriptor) set APP_ID=air.com.doitflash.SampleApp  :: Output packages set DIST_PATH=dist set DIST_NAME=PeymanApp  :validation %SystemRoot%\System32\find /C "&lt;id&gt;%APP_ID%&lt;/id&gt;" "%APP_XML%" &gt; NUL if errorlevel 1 goto badid goto end_validation  :badid echo. echo ERROR: Application ID (APP_ID) does NOT match Application descriptor '%APP_XML%'     (id)  echo.  :end_validation  set TARGET= set PLATFORM=android  ::call bat\Packager.bat if "%PLATFORM%"=="android" goto android-config  :android-config set CERT_FILE=%AND_CERT_FILE% set SIGNING_OPTIONS=%AND_SIGNING_OPTIONS% set ICONS=%AND_ICONS% set DIST_EXT=apk set TYPE=apk goto start  :start if not exist "%CERT_FILE%" goto certificate :: Output file set FILE_OR_DIR=%FILE_OR_DIR% -C "%ICONS%" . if not exist "%DIST_PATH%" md "%DIST_PATH%" set OUTPUT=%DIST_PATH%\%DIST_NAME%%TARGET%.%DIST_EXT% :: Package  echo true echo. call adt -package -target %TYPE%%TARGET% %OPTIONS% %SIGNING_OPTIONS% "%OUTPUT%"     "%APP_XML%" %FILE_OR_DIR% -extdir lib/ echo. if errorlevel 1 goto failed goto end  :certificate echo Certificate not found: %CERT_FILE% echo.  if %PAUSE_ERRORS%==1 pause exit  :failed echo APK setup creation FAILED.  if %PAUSE_ERRORS%==1 pause exit  :end Prove that $\mathcal{P}(A)⊆ \mathcal{P}(B)$ if and only if $A⊆B$. Here is my proof, I would appreciate it if someone could critique it for me:  To prove this statement true, we must proof that the two conditional statements ("If $\mathcal{P}(A)⊆ \mathcal{P}(B)$, then $A⊆B$," and, If $A⊆B$, then $\mathcal{P}(A)⊆ \mathcal{P}(B)$) are true.    Contrapositive of the first statement: If $A \nsubseteq B$, then $\mathcal{P}(A) \nsubseteq \mathcal{P}(B)$  If $A \nsubseteq B$, then there must be some element in $A$, call it $x$, that is not in $B$: $x \in A$, and $x \notin B$. Since $x \in A$, then $\{x\} \in \mathcal{P}(A)$; moreover, since $x \notin B$, then $\{x\} \notin \mathcal{P}(B)$, which proves that, if $A \nsubseteq B$, then $\mathcal{P}(A) \nsubseteq \mathcal{P}(B)$. By proving the contrapositive true, the original proposition must be true.    To prove the second statement true, I would implement nearly the same argument, so that isn't necessary to write. So, does this proof seem correct? Also, was the contrapositive necessary? Or is there another way to prove the initial statement? evaluate the limit as $x$ approaches $0$ of $(\cos x-1)/x$ without l'Hopital's rule I know with l'Hopital's rule it becomes $-\sin(x)$ which has the limit $0$. However, I have been wondering how to evaluate this limit without l'Hopital's rule.