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  • Does Unity's "Transparent Bumped Specular" translate to "semi-shiny must be semi-transparent"?

    - by Shivan Dragon
    Unity's documentation for the "Transparent Bumped Specular" shader/material-type is simply a concatenation of each of the descriptions for its Transparent and Specular Shaders (and also Bumped, but that doesn't apply to the question): Transparent Properties This shader can make mesh geometry partially or fully transparent by reading the alpha channel of the main texture. In the alpha, 0 (black) is completely transparent while 255 (white) is completely opaque. If your main texture does not have an alpha channel, the object will appear completely opaque. (...) Specular Properties (...) Additionally, the alpha channel of the main texture acts as a Specular Map (sometimes called "gloss map"), defining which areas of the object are more reflective than others. Black areas of the alpha will be zero specular reflection, while white areas will be full specular reflection. To me this translates to: I have a mesh representig a car tire The texture need to be very shiny on the rims parts, and almost not shiny at all for the rubber parts Also since the rim is really complex, (with like cut-out decoretions and such), I will not build that into the mesh, but fake it with transparency in the texture I can't do all this using Unity's "Transparent Bumped Specular" shader, because the "rubber" part of the texture will become semi transparent due to me painting the alpha channel dark-grey (because I want it to also be less shiny). Is this correct? If not, how can I make this work?

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  • Tweaking AStar to find closest location to unreachable destination

    - by Shivan Dragon
    I've implemented AStar in Java and it works ok for an area with obstacles where the chosen destination is reachable. However, when the destination is unreachable, the calculated "path" is in no way to the closest location (to the unreachable location) but is instead some random path. Is there a feasible way to tweak AStar into finding the path to the closest location to an unreachable destination?

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  • How can I prevent seams from showing up on objects using lower mipmap levels?

    - by Shivan Dragon
    Disclaimer: kindly right click on the images and open them separately so that they're at full size, as there are fine details which don't show up otherwise. Thank you. I made a simple Blender model, it's a cylinder with the top cap removed: I've exported the UVs: Then imported them into Photoshop, and painted the inner area in yellow and the outer area in red. I made sure I cover well the UV lines: I then save the image and load it as texture on the model in Blender. Actually, I just reload it as the image where the UVs are exported, and change the viewport view mode to textured. When I look at the mesh up-close, there's yellow everywhere, everything seems fine: However, if I start zooming out, I start seeing red (literally and metaphorically) where the texture edges are: And the more I zoom, the more I see it: Same thing happends in Unity, though the effect seems less pronounced. Up close is fine and yellow: Zoom out and you see red at the seams: Now, obviously, for this simple example a workaround is to spread the yellow well outside the UV margins, and its fine from all distances. However this is an issue when you try making a complex texture that should tile seamlessly at the edges. In this situation I either make a few lines of pixels overlap (in which case it looks bad from upclose and ok from far away), or I leave them seamless and then I have those seams when seeing it from far away. So my question is, is there something I'm missing, or some extra thing I must do to have my texture look seamless from all distances?

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  • Google Analytics Dashboard: week-by-week view

    - by Silver Dragon
    Setting up Google Analytics Dashboard allows webmasters to get a weekly progress report of marketing achievements & keep a finger on what's going on at web properties. However, by default, the dashboard always displays a day-by-day report, which isn't actionable in markets, where meaningful improvements happen on a week-by-week, or month-over-month basis. Is there any way the default view (and reports sent out via email) can be set to display week-level resolution, as opposed to day-level resolution? (ie, repro: analytics - site - Standard reports - audience - overview - right side of the window, click "weeK") Many thanks!

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  • Blender 2.64, what are the actual hot-keys for certain actions

    - by Shivan Dragon
    I know this sounds mega lame but I've looked for hotkeys for certain actions, first in the appliation's User Settings (where I didn't find them) then in the official documentation (where I did find some of them but they're not the right ones): http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Manual/3D_interaction/Transform_Control/Manipulators (Ctrl - Alt - S is recommended for Scale, but instead it opens the Save As... window - I think these changed in the latest versions, but they forgot to update the docs) So then, what are the hot keys for: selecting translate manipulator selecting rotate manipulator selecting scale manipulator In Edit mode: select vertex (editing) select edges (editing) select faces (editing) thanks.

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  • Change programfiles variable on windows

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    I have built a computer for a user that asked me for "speed": an SSD was the obvious solution because what he means by speed is "fast boot time". This solved the problem, however the user is not smart enough to remember that he must install programs on D rather than C (c is the ssd, D is an raid 1 hdd). The only solution that comes in my mind is changing programfiles variable such that will point to D rather than C by default. Otherwise, other solutions are ok but I really can't find anything else at the moment. Does anyone have recommendations for how to accomplish changing the default installation directory in Windows?

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  • Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS - One IP, multiple servers

    - by Blu Dragon
    I need opinions and examples on how to best to accomplish the setup I am looking for. I have a public-facing AD domain server with one public IP address. I have setup an external zone for example.com and I successfully have my own name servers pointing to it at ns0.example.com and ns1.example.com. I also have an internal zone for my private network at home.example.com. I am behind a router with the domain server in the DMZ. I want dev.example.com to be accessible from the outside world over https and to point to internal IP address 192.168.1.78. Likewise, I want www.example.com to be accessible from the outside world and point to internal IP address 192.168.1.79. Both dev and www servers are CentOS 5.6 VMs running inside of Hyper-V on the domain server (bad idea I know but I am limited on hardware atm). What is best way to achieve this? From what I have read and researched on Google, I may need to setup a reverse proxy but I am not sure how well that will work with SSL.

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  • Software to store my password on a crypted file and access it through another password

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    I'm looking for a software that allows me to store some passwords in something like "a text file", access it through a password, read my passwords if required and close it again. I want something really straightforward, double click on file, right click "Add new password", add password, description and close. The file must be really secure, I'll store all my passwords there. I know about some command line solutions but I want my setup to be really fast on reading. Do someone know if such a software exist and can point me in the correct direction? I would like to find it freeware, but I'm ok with some low cost tools too.

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  • Do I need a license to create pdf files? [closed]

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    I hope this is the correct place where I could ask this question. My mother is an accountant with a degree in economics. She works as a freelancer and she needs some licenses for her job. The biggest problem is adobe acrobat standard, which costs 400€, quite a lot. I want understand if she must buy it to create pdf files or she can use some free (even for commercial use) programs that she has because of her job (the chamber of commerce provide some advantages to accountants). She is actually using PDFCreator, which as I can read is free for business usage (open source also!!): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Thanks for any suggestion

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  • Unable to create suitable graphics device?

    - by kraze
    I've been following the Eye of the Dragon tutorial, which is basicly a guide to making a 2D RPG game, obviously. I recently finished the tutorial about making pop up screens in the menu and changed the screen to load as a full screen. Whenever I try and load the game it just goes black and my mouse sits there. I cannot change out of it other then with CtrlAltDel. Once i do that it says No suitable graphics card found, unable to create graphics device. I read somewhere about XNA not allowing more then one screen when any one of them is full screen. but it wasnt very informative. Anyone have any ideas whats going on and/or how to fix this? Just incase if this helps this is the code for the graphics device: public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 900; graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 768; graphics.IsFullScreen = true; this.Window.Title = "Eyes of the Dragon"; Content.RootDirectory = "Content"; }

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  • Iphone page curl effect

    - by dragon
    I am using this code for Page curl effect ....Its work fine in simulator and device... But its not (setType:@"pageCurl") apple documented api , this caused it to be rejected by the iPhone Developer Program during the App Store review process: animation = [CATransition animation]; [animation setDelegate:self]; [animation setDuration:1.0f]; animation.startProgress = 0.5; animation.endProgress = 1; [animation setTimingFunction:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut]; [animation setType:@"pageCurl"]; [animation setSubtype:@"fromRight"]; [animation setRemovedOnCompletion:NO]; [animation setFillMode: @"extended"]; [animation setRemovedOnCompletion: NO]; [[imageView layer] addAnimation:animation forKey:@"pageFlipAnimation"]; So i changed and using like this [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL]; [UIView setAnimationDuration:1]; [UIView setAnimationDelegate:self]; [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES]; [UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear]; [UIView setAnimationWillStartSelector:@selector(transitionWillStart:finished:context:)]; [UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:@selector(transitionDidStop:finished:context:)]; // other animation properties [UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlUp forView:imageView cache:YES]; // set view properties [UIView commitAnimations]; In this above code i want to stop the page curl effect at midway.. But i cant stop it in midway like map applications in ipod... Is this any fix for this? or Is there any apple documented methods used for page curl effect in ipod touch? I am searching lot. but didnt get any answer ? can anyone help me? Thanks in advance..plz

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  • C#: How to force "calling" a method from the main thread by signaling in some way from another thread

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    Sorry for long title, I don't know even the way on how to express the question I'm using a library which run a callback from a different context from the main thread (is a C Library), I created the callback in C# and when gets called I would like to just raise an event. However because I don't know what will be inside the event, I would like to find a way to invoke the method without the problem of locks and so on (otherwise the third party user will have to handle this inside the event, very ugly) Are there any way to do this? I can be totally on the wrong way but I'm thinking about winforms way to handle different threads (the .Invoke thing) Otherwise I can send a message to the message loop of the window, but I don't know a lot about message passing and if I can send "custom" messages like this Example: private uint lgLcdOnConfigureCB(int connection, System.IntPtr pContext) { OnConfigure(EventArgs.Empty); return 0U; } this callback is called from another program which I don't have control over, I would like to run OnConfigure method in the main thread (the one that handles my winform), how to do it? Or in other words, I would like to run OnConfigure without the need of thinking about locks

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  • C++ Formatting like visual studio c# formatting

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    I like the way Visual studio (2008) format C# code; unfortunately it seems it doesn't behave in the same way when writing C++ code. For example, when I write a code in this way: class Test { public: int x; Test() {this->x=20;} ~Test(){} }; in C# (ok this is C++ but you can understand what I mean), this part: Test() {this->x=20;} Will become Test() { this->x=20; } This is obviusly a stupid example, but there are a lot of things where putting brackets in correct position, indenting code and other things with my own hands becomes boring. I can obviusly change editor if you suggest me a good one for C++ code, I would like to find something with these features: Intellisense (like vs, at least similiar) Custom class coloring (in c# they are cyan, why are they black in c++?) Wordwrap (possibly) Documentation when you mouse over a method/variable Auto formatting (when you close a bracket like "}" in c# you'll get everything well formatted) obviusly I can find other features, but this is what is in my mind at the moment. Thanks for any suggestion

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  • A/B testing on App Engine?

    - by Silver Dragon
    What would be the simplest implementation of an A/B testing system running on App engine? I'm especially keen towards performance implications of using Datastore for back-end (with looong query times), and database design.

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  • Visual studio does not gray out properties with a ReadOnlyAttribute(true)

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    I know it's stupid but visual studio (2010) doesn't gray out my properties tagged with ReadOnlyAttribute, I can't edit their values (if I try to do it, simply return to the previous value), but they aren't grayed out, I think it's really boring this when using the editor Is there an option or an attribute that I'm forgetting? Thanks for any help Example 1: /// <summary> /// Inform if the LcdDisplay has been already initiated /// </summary> [Description("Inform if the LcdDisplay has been already initiated")] [DefaultValue(false)] [ReadOnly(true)] public bool Initialized { get; private set; } Initialized is not grayed out

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  • Using LINQ to SQL and chained Replace

    - by White Dragon
    I have a need to replace multiple strings with others in a query from p in dx.Table where p.Field.Replace("A", "a").Replace("B", "b").ToLower() = SomeVar select p Which provides a nice single SQL statement with the relevant REPLACE() sql commands. All good :) I need to do this in a few queries around the application... So i'm looking for some help in this regard; that will work as above as a single SQL hit/command on the server It seems from looking around i can't use RegEx as there is no SQL eq Being a LINQ newbie is there a nice way for me to do this? eg is it possible to get it as a IQueryable "var result" say and pass that to a function to add needed .Replace()'s and pass back? Can i get a quick example of how if so? EDIT: This seems to work! does it look like it would be a problem? var data = from p in dx.Videos select p; data = AddReplacements(data, checkMediaItem); theitem = data.FirstOrDefault(); ... public IQueryable<Video> AddReplacements(IQueryable<Video> DataSet, string checkMediaItem) { return DataSet.Where(p => p.Title.Replace(" ", "-").Replace("&", "-").Replace("?", "-") == checkMediaItem); }

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  • Connection Timeout exception for a query using ADO.Net

    - by dragon
    Update: Looks like the query does not throw any timeout. The connection is timing out. This is a sample code for executing a query. Sometimes, while executing time consuming queries, it throws a timeout exception. I cannot use any of these techniques: 1) Increase timeout. 2) Run it asynchronously with a callback. This needs to run in a synchronous manner. please suggest any other techinques to keep the connection alive while executing a time consuming query? private static void CreateCommand(string queryString, string connectionString) { using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection( connectionString)) { SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(queryString, connection); command.Connection.Open(); command.ExecuteNonQuery(); } }

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  • UIAccelerationValue angle

    - by dragon
    Hi, - (void)accelerometer:(UIAccelerometer *)accelerometer didAccelerate:(UIAcceleration *)acceleration Using the above method we got an acceleration value of (x and y and z).Now i want to find angle between (x and y) and (y and z) and (z and x).How can i do this? Can anyone help me ? Thanks in advance.....

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  • tcpdf table header in each page

    - by DragoN
    i am using tcpdf to create pdf files with rows of table in the first page of pdf i display some info like : List of table .... and header of table after that i display the rows in table if there much rows it contiunes in the next page without the info [List of table... and header of table] i want to display the header of table only in the next pages here is my code $pdf->SetFont('aefurat', '', 15); $pdf->AddPage('P', 'A4'); $pdf->SetFontSize(17); $pdf->Cell(0, 13, 'List of the Byan Table,'C'); $pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 14); $htmlpersian = 'In / Out List'; $pdf->WriteHTML($htmlpersian, true, 0, true, 0); $pdf->setRTL(false); $pdf->SetFontSize(11); $pdf->setRTL(true); Connect(); $resultsc = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM byan Order By Date "); while($r = mysql_fetch_array($resultsc)) { $printresult .= ' <tr> <td ><center>'.$r['Date'].'</center></td> <td ><center>'.$r['In'].'</center></td> <td ><center>'.$r['Out'].'</center></td> <td ><center>'.$r['Balance'].'</center></td> <td ><center>'.$r['Info'].'</center></td> <td ><center>'.$r['Number'].'</center></td> </tr>'; } $tbl = ' <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" border="1" align="center"> <tr> <td style="width: 13%; background-color:black; color:white;"><center>Date</center></td> <td style="width: 11%; background-color:black; color:white;"><center>In</center></td> <td style="width: 11%; background-color:black; color:white;"><center>Out</center></td> <td style="width: 12%; background-color:black; color:white;"><center>Balance</center></td> <td style="width: 45%; background-color:black; color:white;"><center>Info</center></td> <td style="width: 11%; background-color:black; color:white;"><center>Number</center></td> </tr> '.$printresult.' </table> '; $pdf->writeHTML($tbl, true, false, true, false, ''); the output is First Page: List of the Byan Table In / Out List Table Header rows Second Page: Rows Third Page: Rows i want the output to be like that First Page: List of the Byan Table In / Out List Table Header Rows Second Page: Table Header Rows Third Page: Table Header Rows

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  • Reverse PInvoke and create a full unmanaged C# program

    - by Fire-Dragon-DoL
    I know this is a strange question but the idea is simple: I prefer C# syntax rather than C++: -Setters and getters directly inside a property -interfaces -foreach statement -possibility to declare an implicit cast operator other small things... What I really don't know is if is possible to import a c++ dll (expecially std libraries) in C# if I don't use any namespace (even System) The idea is just to write a program using everything that you will normally use in C++ (nothing from CLR so), even printf for example Thanks for any answer

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  • How much information does pdb files contain? (C# / .NET)

    - by Silver Dragon
    Is is wise to redistribute the pdb files along with a commercial application? Occasionally, I'm using the stack trace to get a more detailed error reporting logs from the deployed applications; can this functionality be achieved without relying to those files? Also, how much hints of the original source code does these files contain? Would it be easier to reverse-engineer my application using it?

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