I just received a 3D model including one obj and two tga files that are generated in 3dx Max.  When I import the obj file into Blender, obviously I cannot see the texture details provided by tga files.  The obj file contains a line referring to an mtl file with the same name which does not exist.  How can I convert texture information of tga files such that I can import and see them in blender?  I've read somewhere that I should convert tga file into png or jpg format.  Then what?  Thanks,
I used node textures in a mesh I exported to .FBX.  I then imported it into Unreal Engine 4 and it didn't import any textures; I clicked the Upload Textures option in Unreal Engine.  Is there something I'm doing wrong or is it Blender?
What is the smallest viable reproducing population, such as in a human population. By viable I mean a population which keeps genetic defects low (enough).  A very strongly related question: what is the expected number of generations a given population can survive? Merge pdfs sequentially I would like to merge 4 pdfs, pdf1.pdf, pdf2.pdf, pdf3.pdf pdf4.pdf together so that the pdfs are spliced, i.e. the first page will be the first page of pdf1, the second the first of pdf2, the third the first of pdf3, etc.  The pdf files are with plain images, no table of contents.  How would I accomplish this? It would be nice to do it from Terminal as well. Automatic coloring of numbers according to size Scientific talks have their own culture, reporting the results, typically for me, in a table of the following form  1.7333    1.6472    1.5418    1.4682    1.5740 1.1525    1.2878    1.2652    1.3511    1.5102 1.2181    1.1500    1.2220    1.2425    1.5699 0.9786    1.1051    1.1472    1.3096    1.6757 0.9569    0.9190    1.0433    1.2924    1.4867   There is clearly a(n almost perfectly) monotonic pattern for rows and columns. Now for the naked eye, this is not the most quick way of capturing informing.  I would like numbers that bigger in absolute value, to appear differently (either green vs red or light vs dark) than smaller numbers, such that the pattern becomes clear instantly.  Is there a way of programming this in LaTeX? How can I make a deepcopy of a function in Python? The essential gist of my question relates to what the real, unvarnished realities are of graduate, post-graduate, research, fellowship, and professorship attainment - when you aren't a single person with no pressing demands other than feeding yourself.   [EDIT: I am humbled by the incredibly helpful and thoughtful responses so far, all of which are +1 from me. I'll leave the question open a few more days before clicking 'accept' on any one, but you all have my gratitude and I hope others will benefit anywhere near as much as I have. ]  What I don't know is what succeeding in this path truly requires in time committment and family support.   Right now I can handle a 12-14 credit course schedule with 3.7-4.0 GPA (in the top 5-10% for college and program, dean's list, etc), work part-time, and still have time to be home and not have a burn-out/breakdown - and the academics are the easy part by far! I could do more, but I need to work more too.   What I really need to know is how sharply different is the time/dedication curve of graduate work and above. I realize each step is a filter that removes most of the entrants (most people don't get a degree, most who do don't attend/finish graduate school, most who do don't seek a PhD,  most who do don't seek/gain professorship...and on and on). But I don't know how severe the stepping is - I'm not talking "tenured professor at MIT or bust" - I realize that bar is many orders of magnitude higher.  Background Details: As an "adult, returning" undergraduate student with a (disabled) wife and kids, I'm halfway through a bachelor degree now. I've located a field of study (in a focus of Industrial Engineering) that has made me very interested in altering my life path to include seeking a Masters and maybe even a PhD/professorship (my father was a professor, so its not a purely novel concept to me). I've met and spoken with my advisor and 2 other professors with experience in related fields, and all is encouraging; I have a graduate school in mind, I've received lots of great advice on preparing for school (on this forum and in person), I test well (no GRE fears remain), good grades/class rank, good prospects for future strong referal letters, etc - a comparitively charmed existence for which I am very grateful! I just have to investigate whether I can make it through with an intact, cared for family!  Any guidance you could provide me, and other aspiring "non-traditional" students alike, would be appreciated immensely - thank you! So this has been an on-going saga the last few days, and I've already posted several related questions here, and I am feeling quite defeated.  I have/had a beautiful 16" cast iron dutch oven from Cabelas. I took it out for a test spin the other night (I had completed all seasoning steps that the Google Gods recommended). Then:   I tried (and failed spectacularly) to cook a pork roast in it, but cooked it at way too hot a temperature and burned/charred/fused the animal fats/juices into the oven, whereby it basically baked into the cast iron (related question ) I tried cleaning/scrubbing it with coarse-grained salt -> did nothing Then I tried cleaning it with dishwashing liquid + salt -> did nothing Then I let the whole thing soak in a vat of a 50/50 mixture of water + white vinegar -> took all the tarry slude off, stripped some seasoning off (revealing bare iron), but in 80% of the burned/charred areas, still did nothing Then I went to town on it with a steel wool and salt and dishwashing liquid and was left with some smooth, properly seasoned surfaces, and some more areas stripped down to bare metal I decided to just re-season it. So I scrubbed it one last time (about 1 hour ago) with a steel wool and some water, got all the rust and remaining crud off (finally), and built a fire. I placed it on the hot coals of the fire and let it sit there for 15 mins. My intention (whether misled or not) was to burn off all the remaining water from when I had previously washed/scrubbed it, then let it cool off, then season it with oil, and then bake it for a few hours.   So I just took the oven off the fire and opened the lid...and the entire inside is covered in rust. An hour ago there was none. When I put the oven into the fire 15 mins prior, there had been none (yes, I checked) This just came out of nowhere.  I'm ready to give up, unless anyone can offer some concrete set of steps for me that will salvage this $100 rust bucket. How can I get rid of the rust and then re-season this before more rust sets in? Meh... Writing a function inside the main method - Java Using ArcPy to convert .txt to shapefile with coordinate system? I tried to define my coordinate system on creating the shapefile but when I zoom to layer I don't see my features and ArcGIS crashes. I know it's not in the coordinate system I defined for it but it shows the coordinate under properties but doesn't reflect when I zoom to layer. Here is my python code:  import arcpy  newfcName ="newfc.shp"   outpath = r"C:/FLOOD/IKEJA AND KOSOFE"  # Declaration arcpy.env.overwriteOutput=True  arcpy.env.workspace= outpath  # Create new Shapefile and add FIELDS newfc = arcpy.CreateFeatureclass_management(outpath, newfcName, "Point") # get the coordinate system by describing a feature class dsc = arcpy.Describe("newfc.shp" )  coord_sys = dsc.spatialReference  try:        # run the tool    arcpy.DefineProjection_management(newfcName , coord_sys)     # print messages when the tool runs successfully    print(arcpy.GetMessages(0))  except arcpy.ExecuteError:    print(arcpy.GetMessages(2))  except Exception as ex:    print(ex.args[0])  arcpy.AddField_management(newfc, "X", "STRING", field_length = 50) arcpy.AddField_management(newfc, "Y", "STRING", field_length = 50) arcpy.AddField_management(newfc, "Z", "STRING", field_length = 50) arcpy.AddField_management(newfc, "I", "FLOAT", field_length = 50)  # Reference Cursors cursor=arcpy.da.InsertCursor(newfc, ["X", "Y", "Z", "I"])  # Read File  a = open("C:/FLOOD/IKEJA AND KOSOFE/DEM/532722.txt","r")  inputF = a.readlines()  for line in inputF:     xCoordinate, yCoordinate, zValue, iValue = line.split(" ")      newRow = (str(xCoordinate), str(yCoordinate), str(zValue), float(iValue))      cursor.insertRow(newRow)  a.close() Custom first page with fancyhdr I'm using the package fancyhdr to format my footers and headers, with my name in the header and a n of m pages format for the footer. Like so:  \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields \fancyhead[C]{Name} \fancyfoot[C]{\footnotesize Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}   By default, the fancy page style only affects the pages after the first page. I know I can set the first page to the fancy page style using \thispagestyle, but I only want the first page to use the footer, not the header. Is there a way to create a custom style that just the first page will use? Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen How can I adapt Ubuntu to a high resolution display?  I have a display with 3200x1600px on only 11'' and everything looks really tiny. Subject–verb agreement not clear in "Is two bars OK?" Is the following correct?     Can I get some chocolate for myself? Yes, you can but not much.   Is two bars OK?   Is there any rule to explain the sentence above?  The dialogue's taken from Grammar Textbook Round-Up Level #3. git-upload-pack: command not found, when cloning remote Git repo I have been using git to keep two copies of my project in sync, one is my local box, the other the test server. This is an issue which occurs when I log onto our remote development server using ssh;  git clone me@me.mydevbox.com:/home/chris/myproject Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/myproject/.git/ Password: bash: git-upload-pack: command not found fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fetch-pack from 'me@me.mydevbox.com:/home/chris/myproject' failed.   (the file-names have been changed to protect the guilty... !)   Both boxes run Solaris 10 AMD. I have done some digging,  if I add --upload-pack=$(which git-upload-pack) the command works, (and proves that $PATH contains the path to 'git-upload-pack' as per the RTFM solution)  but this is really annoying, plus 'git push' doesn't work, because I don't think there is a --unpack= option.    Incidentally, all the git commands work fine from my local box, it is the same version of the software (1.5.4.2), installed on the same NFS mount at /usr/local/bin.    Can anybody help? Why does a light beam in a moving light clock follows a V shaped path? If I am standing on a platform moving along the X-axis and I throw a basketball vertically upward along the z-axis, the ball also travels along the x-axis. Does the same apply to a photon? According to a special relativity postulate  speed of light is not affected by the velocity of the inertial frame or the velocity of the emitter. If this postulate is true, shouldn't a photon fired vertically as above should travel only along the z-axis but not along the x-axis? "provide" vs. "provide with" I am wondering if the following sentence is correct:     We add the information their study provides with to our article.   The context is: their study provides with some information. And we add the information to our article.  I want to keep the word "add", and someone told me that "provides with to" sounds wired... Ubuntu non LTS to LTS in the future How to text-to-speech output using command-line? How to get speech output from entered text by using command-line?  Also facility to change speech rate, pitch, volume etc using simple command. Prove that $\left | \frac{a-b}{a+b}+\frac{b-c}{b+c}+\frac{c-a}{c+a} \right | < \frac{1}{8}.$ Let $a,b,$ and $c$ be the lengths of the sides of a triangle. Prove that $$\left | \dfrac{a-b}{a+b}+\dfrac{b-c}{b+c}+\dfrac{c-a}{c+a} \right | &lt; \dfrac{1}{8}.$$   The best idea I had was to expand the fractions to get something nicer. So we get $\dfrac{a-b}{a+b}+\dfrac{b-c}{b+c}+\dfrac{c-a}{c+a} = \dfrac{a^2 b-a^2 c-a b^2+a c^2+b^2 c-b c^2}{(a+b) (a+c) (b+c)}.$ Then I would try to relate this to side lengths of a triangle to prove the desired inequality but that is the step where I am unsure. Why is brace expansion not supported? Do I have to do any configuration to start brace expansion? When I run mkdir {1..10}, it just creates a dir naming {1..10}. I'm going to mount my 47" LCD above my fireplace. I'm not looking for arguments against this decision. I'm looking for wiring solutions. The diagram below should help explain the situation.   _________________________________________________ |     |     |    | |   |   |   | |    |     |     | |     |     |    | |   |   |   | |    |     |     | |     |     |    | |   |   |   | |    |     |     | |     |     |    | | p |   | m | |    |     |     | |     |     |    | |   |   |   | |    |     |     | |     |     |    #################    |     |     | |     |     |    ##             ##    |     |     | |     |     |    ##             ##    |     |     | |    P|     |    ##             ##  m |     |P C  | |_____|_____|____##_____________##____|_____|_____|    | = stud # = fireplace brick P = existing power outlet C = existing cable outlet p = new power outlet m = new media outlet   Essentially, there is an existing power outlet on either side of the fireplace and a cable outlet on the far right side of the fireplace. I'm intending to put my non-TV media equipment on the right side of the wall and the television above the fireplace. This means I need two things above the fireplace: power and HDMI. I don't want to just run an HDMI cable in the wall. I'd prefer to have some sort of conduit to simplify replacing the cable or having a second (with one of these on each end: ). I only need to drill through two studs that are 6" apart above the right side of the fireplace in order to access the vertical space where I want the other end. For the power, I need to drill through two 6"-spaced studs above the left-side of the fireplace, but then another 2 full-height studs.  There are a couple of caveats:   This is an externally facing wall, which means there's insulation. I'm assuming this will make things more difficult. I'd like to refrain from cutting more holes in the wall than is necessary for the outlets (to reduce drywall damage/repair).   I've considered a couple of options:   Cut the openings for the outlets above the fireplace, and use a flexible drill bit to drill through the studs above the fireplace. This minimizes dry-wall damage, but how difficult is this with insulation in the wall, how can I feed the conduit through those holes, and how would I drill through the full-height studs on the left for power? Cut a wide section of dry-wall (4" high?) from the desired media outlet to the right until reaching the gap above the desired lower outlet. This results in some dry-wall damage, but would allow more control for drilling holes in the studs and running conduit. This still doesn't solve the problem of getting through the full-height stud for the power. For the power, I would need to extend the cut-out two studs further.   What should I do? Can you be tripped by an AoO while standing up?