a quick question on how keyframes / rendering an animation works within Blender. I want to render multiple images with different settings within some materials ,different shapekeys and poses, but no movement at all. I thought the best way to archive this, is to render a x frame sequence and have drivers tap in or out with 100% on each frame. So my question is: How does Blender handle this? For each frame, will blender first apply all keyframes and then render ? Also can I deactivate the interpolation thing, or can it happen that something is not 100% on frame 2 when i have set it 0% on frame 1 and 100% on frame 2 ?  A short answer is all i need, thanks in advance.   Also on a side note : How is Blender handling resources ? Besaid file is getting kinda large with many meshes/materials and i have experienced slower performance while doing the same tasks (like creating another mesh :D).Making other stuff invisible didn't seem to change that. Moving them to another layer seemed better (maybe that in fact is freeing all memory for those items ?).It is still very workable, but in general, if there is a way to make blender kinda ignore all the stuff i don't need right now entirely without removing it from the file, that would be great.  Thank you in advance, again.  Have a nice time,  Aaron.
In order to animate a character so that it grabs an object an throws it, I added a Child-Of constrained and keyframed its influence. In the F-curve Editor I can't set the curve which controls the influence to interpolation-mode Constant without changing the other curves (Which should be linear or bezier).   How can the interpolation mode of a curve changed independently?
Any point to downvoting already closed questions? That question of mine was closed a long time ago (relatively, to me at least).  However, from time to time I still get downvotes for it.  That got me thinking: is there any reason to still downvote closed questions? How to output a counter with leading zeros? I can output the value of a counter in a LaTeX document via:  \setcounter{mycounter}{1} \arabic{mycounter}   Which inserts a 1. But how do I format the output by, for example, adding a leading zero if mycounter is less than 10 in a way similar to what  lets you do by specifying %02d as your format string? I have a Category entity which has a Nullable ParentId field. When the method below is executing and the categoryId is null, the result seems null however there are categories which has null ParentId value.  What is the problem in here, what am I missing?  public IEnumerable&lt;ICategory&gt; GetSubCategories(long? categoryId) {     var subCategories = this.Repository.Categories.Where(c =&gt; c.ParentId == categoryId)         .ToList().Cast&lt;ICategory&gt;();      return subCategories; }   By the way, when I change the condition to (c.ParentId == null),  result seems normal. If every real-valued continuous function is bounded on $X$ (metric space), then $X$ is compact. How do I increase my code coverage, or why can't I cover these lines? I read it in English in the United States, somewhere in the 1990s. I got it off of the big bookshelf in our family room, which means it could be a good bit older; some of the books were my Dad's. At the beginning, a young boy (maybe an early teen?) leaves his house, where he lives with his parent or parents, and takes a test to become a spaceship pilot for the military. Part of the test judges reaction speed, and he fails the test. He later learns (I think when he's approached by an agent of the government) that he "failed" because he has some sort of enhanced fortune that meant that he was actually giving the results before they could be displayed on the screen. At the time, I remember thinking that the book felt a bit like a Star Wars rip-off.  Years later, I read that one of the Star Wars books (probably now Legends) had Luke similarly failing the Imperial Academy test because he gave his answers too quickly, and it amused me that I was uncertain as to which had come first.  I don't remember anything concrete about the cover, although I have a general impression that it was white. Definitely futuristic. My impression was that the boy was wearing a white uniform for the testing and that the government agent who spoke to him had a grey beard, but I might be mixing bits of Star Wars in there. Indexing redundantly named vector in R MAC addresses in JavaScript I know that we can get the MAC address of a user via IE (ActiveX objects).  Is there a way to obtain a user's MAC address using JavaScript? Implicit newline at the end of each paragraph? Propose Newbie-Overflow site or section Because the perl section is looking like that right now. I believe that Stack Overflow is going out of it's charter in becoming a newbie FAQ when as far as the original reasoning it was meant to be something along the lines of an expert site.   is a good example of what I mean in Perl. It probably could be closed because it's a duplicate, or some other reason.   I would also like to indicate that I don't hold back answering newbie questions. It's just when I think of an obscure "stack overflow" error that's beating you some 3 am close to deadline, that's not "Howcum Perl print ..." and follows with something that causes a vast majority of Perl programmers to say oops, because they know exactly what's going on.   So the proposal is   A new site. "Move to Newbieville" A new "section" A new status somewhat similar to Closed ("Newbied") but still can be updated all the same as an open question.   I'm not against giving some newbies an assist, but I feel a FAQ for rank newbieism is not something that SO started out to be, based on the original concept of a Expert Site.   Including comment to Gnoupi:   I said nothing about making newbies unwelcome. Like I said. I answer them--heck, I think I've even answer homework questions. I've answered on the vague impressions that I can glean from posts that have 4 close votes. It can even lead to avoiding downvoting or yelling at newbies by more established curmudgeons if there is a special action you can do to gently inform newbies that this is a real newbie question.  However, you have to know that to some people newbies are already unwelcome. There is a site ethic, but the individual is also going to decide how much they welcome newbies. And people do post RTFM answers already.   Anyway, I'm one vote away from a peer pressure badge it seems. (Nope, nailed it.)    EDIT  For somebody jumping to the conclusion that I'm hostile to newbies:  just earlier Sudo comes up with an error, cannot run anything as root For some reason, when I try to run any programs (I am trying to run a rootkit hunter: rkhunter) as root on the command line with sudo like this:  sudo rkhunter   Then I get this message:  You must be the root user to run this program   and then I get these lines:  sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin 'sudoers_policy' sudo: /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so must only be writable by owner sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins   I try typing in just sudo but that comes up with the same three errors as above. Also in /etc/ sudo.conf does not exist.  I cannot run any other programs as root through sudo. It was also strange because I could run as root a day ago. I would like it to work.  Just so you know, I am the only user of this computer, and the administrator, running Lubuntu 14.04.1. Orthogonal Projection of $ z $ onto the Affine set $ \left\{ x \mid A x = b \right\} $ How do I create a PDO parameterized query with a LIKE statement? Here's my attempt at it:  $query = $database-&gt;prepare('SELECT * FROM table WHERE column LIKE "?%"');  $query-&gt;execute(array('value'));  while ($results = $query-&gt;fetch())  {     echo $results['column']; } Lost space after removing bootcamp So I removed bootcamp and now there is a partition called "free space" that I can't remove.  Here is my output from diskutil list:    Here is the screenshot from disk utility showing the partitions:    And here is the error I get when I try to remove "free space":    Heres the output when I run   sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0 Displaying equations, how to combine strings and values without evaluating everything. 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I've followed a few tutorials and read a few books but none satisfied me completely. I'm looking for introductions for beginners which do not depend heavily on linear algebra or calculus, or which provide a soft introduction for the requisite mathematics as they go along.  What are good introductory guides to QM along these lines? What's the best way of checking if an object property in JavaScript is undefined? I had the following two problems:     Find a counterexample for $f_*(A \cap B) \supseteq f_*(A) \cap f_*(B)$ and $ f_*(A-B) \subseteq f_*(A) -f_*(B).$ Where $f_*(X)$ is the image of $X$ under $f$ for some function $f:A \rightarrow B $ and some subset $X \subseteq A$.   I came with the following answer:  Let $ f: \mathbb{Z} \rightarrow \mathbb{Z} $, where $f: x\mapsto 0$; let $A=\{1,2\}$, and $B=\{3,4\}$.     For $f_*(A \cap B) \supseteq f_*(A) \cap f_*(B)$, $$ f_*(A \cap B) = f_*\{ \varnothing\} = \varnothing \hspace{1cm} \text{and} \hspace{1cm} f_*(A) \cap f_*(B)=\{0\} \cap \{0\} = \{0\}. $$ It follows that $ \varnothing \nsupseteq \{0\} $. For $ f_*(A-B) \subseteq f_*(A) -f_*(B)$, $$f_*(A-B)=f_*(\{1,2\})=\{0\} \hspace{1cm} \text{and} \hspace{1cm} f_*(A) - f_*(B) = \{0\} - \{0\} = \varnothing$$ It follows that $ \{0\}  \nsubseteq \varnothing $.   Now (assuming my answer is correct), let's say I want to find more counterexamples or maybe a more general answer (e.g. all the conditions under which the inclusion fails). Other than by trial and error or just intuition, how would I do that?   I know this is a broad question, so I'm specifically asking for methods or advice on how to build counterexamples in elementary set theory (for example, tips on where to begin or rules that apply in general that may be unobvious).