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Intel® System Studio JTAG debugger has so far only supported Intel® Atom CPUs. The next version, Intel® System Studio 2014, introduces JTAG debugging for systems based on processors with the new Silvermont and Haswell microarchitectures. This document describes the basic requirements for JTAG debugging and some of the features offered for these new processors.
Intel® System Studio 2014 is planned to be released in the first quarter of 2014. One of the many new features is the increased processor support of JTAG debugging. Adding to the so far supported Intel® Atom CPUs (N2xxx, D2xxx, Z5xx, E6xx, CE42xx, and CE 53xx), the new Intel® System Studio 2014 enables developers to also debug Silvermont microarchitecture based processors (e.g. Avoton, Bay Trail, Rangeley ) and 4th Generation Intel® Core™ products (Haswell). Please consult ark.intel.com for up-to-date information on the processors offered under these code names:
JTAG debugging requires a target – host environment. Intel® System Studio must be installed on the host system. To connect the host to a Silvermont or Haswell target an Intel® debug probe ITP-XDP3 must be used as other models are currently not supported for these platforms (please consult the release notes for details on processor support against probe types). The following photo shows what is delivered when you order an ITP-XDP3.If you cannot use the US power cable you will need to get a standard IEC-60320 C13 cable as usually used with desktop PCs:
Each target platform must be enabled to support JTAG debugging, esp. there must be an XDP connector on the PCB such as on this board:
Consult your system vendor's documentation for details about the XDP connector and enabling of JTAG debugging.
On the host computer both Linux and Windows operating systems are supported. Detailed and up-to-date software and hardware requirements for the host and target environments are described in the Intel® System Studio 2014 release notes (links are in the reference section below) and the Intel® JTAG Debugger User and Reference Guide installed with Intel® System Studio.
Full Intel Silicon & Chipset support
An in-depth view into Intel® processors supporting silicon specific features, including - architectural registers - Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions - as well as graphics chipset registers for Atom™ Processor chipsets You will find the graphical representation of peripheral registers, corresponding bit fields and their online documentation from within the debugger GUI very helpful when examining or altering a system configuration.
Execution Trace Support
View execution history and gain a deep understanding of the system wide executed code flow. Find errors by analysing the execution path and identifying the root cause of exceptions.
Updated Source Files Window
The Source Files Window shows, within a tree structure, all source files loaded for the target. At top level the libraries, below that the folders and as leaf nodes the source files itself are displayed. Use the search field to filter the displayed files. Double click on a source file in this tree to open the file in a Source Window.
Linux* OS Awareness / Kernel Module Debugging
Debugging a Linux* system is much easier with the Intel® JTAG debugger. It shows all currently active kernel threads and a list of all currently loaded kernel modules with status information and the memory location of the initialization and clean-up methods. To debug a kernel module set breakpoints on module load, initialization or clean-up/exit. On reaching a breakpoint the module source code is displayed - now single step through your code. Unloaded kernel modules are debugged by entering the modules name and then defining breakpoints just as with modules already loaded into the OS.
Power Events Handling
If a target is reset or powered-off the debugger retains the setup and once power is restored the debugger will attempt to halt the target at the reset vector.
Address Translation
It is very easy to translate any address between the physical and virtual address spaces. Use this to identify what physical memory areas your code is actually accessing or running from.
Scripting Language
A rich set of powerful debugging commands are available for debugging in a non-interactive mode. Results can be logged and analysed on completion. This feature is ideally suited for regression testing. Here is a simple example I used after resetting the target to get over the initial start-up code and load symbols for the EFI firmware I was debugging:
! creation date: Wed Nov 06 14:56:30 2013 STEP /ASSEMBLER 38 efi "loadthis 0x00000000FFFFB5D8" run until @line 1409
Debugging UEFI Firmware
The Intel JTAG Debugger not only allows source code debugging of your UEFI firmware / BIOS, it also has some nice features to help you find your modules! One of the difficulties is locating the modules and assigning the correct source code to the assembly code. Once you have stepped into your code type this command into the debugger console:
efi "loadthis". This tells the debugger to look for a module header starting at the current IP. Once the header is found the debugger will load the source code for that module and display your source! This function is especially nice to have once the BIOS has moved itself to RAM and all the addresses are wrong again - a simple
efi "loadthis"will find the module header once again and you are back into your source code! Here is a screen shot of what you see after the header has been found. You can see the command in the console window and that the debugger has loaded the C-source code.
Flash Programming
Selected Intel® Atom processor types allow flash memory programming through the JTAG debugger probe. Please consult the release notes for details on supported processors and Flash devices.
In future Intel® System Studio will support new microarchitectures and CPU products as they are launched into the market. With the 2014 release Intel® System Studio continues to be the excellent choice for embedded application and system software developers on Intel® based platforms.
Webinar -"Intel® System Studio: Embedded application development and debugging tools"
System Software Debug with JTAG and Event Trace
How to Find and Fix System Software Issues Fast - Intel® System Studio's Intel® JTAG Debugger
Intel® System Studio 2014 release notes
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Minnesota was the ATS victor, as they covered the 3-point spread as an underdog.
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SACRAMENTO California has a reputation as one of the most liberal states in the nation. And yet, on Election Night, when some voters for the first time in American history approved same-sex marriage and recreational marijuana use, it was in Washington, Colorado and Maine – not California.
In fact, over the past four years, California voters approved a measure to block same-sex marriage and rejected one to decriminalize pot. This month, while other states were burnishing their progressive credentials, California voters defeated an effort to abolish the death penalty.
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"We're not the most liberal state," says Tony Quinn, the co-editor of the California Target Book, an almanac of legislative and congressional campaigns. "We're purple."
A former Republican legislative staffer, Quinn's take is that California's blue-state reputation is a bit overblown. It was only two years ago, he pointed out, that California had a Republican governor in Arnold Schwarzenegger. And while our current, Democratic governor has gotten a lot of attention for persuading Californians to approve his Proposition 30 tax plan, Quinn notes that 46 percent of voters still opposed Jerry Brown's proposal.
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Rather, he said, the issue was the supporters of efforts to legalize same-sex marriage and recreational marijuana use.
They shot themselves in the foot, he said.
Think back to what you saw and heard during 2008, when Proposition 8, the measure to ban same-sex marriages, was on the ballot. There was that clip, played over and over again, of then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom saying that gay marriage is coming, "whether you like it or not."
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"Campaigns matter," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, adding that same-sex-marriage proponents could have won in California in 2008 if their campaign had been better managed.
"I think there is a long-term progression for greater support for both issues in the state," he said, referring to same-sex marriage and recreational marijuana use. "You'll have to see how well the campaigns are run. It's not a slam-dunk either way."
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Fellow pollster Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, said state voters are clearly "deep blue" in their choice of candidates – just look at the supermajorities the Democrats recently secured in the state Assembly and Senate. But he said you shouldn't assume California voters will take every issue from a "liberal point of view." Case in point: the state's vote on Proposition 34, the measure on the ballot to outlaw the death penalty.
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APX - Alarm Security SolutionsAPX Alarm, Security Solutions West Provo, Utah United States of America
APX Alarm REVIEW: APX Alarm commitment to total customer satisfaction. APX Alarm's past and current approach to business is about protecting families and providing the best customer experience from the beginning to the end of the customer's time with the company. Provo Utah
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APX - Alarm Security Solutions Broke into my own house and the alarm didn't even go off. West Provo, Utah
My story starts off the same as everyone else's in the sense that I was mislead by APX the day that they came knocking on my door. One of the first questions that I asked was if I could cancel the alarm at any time without penalty or charge, and was told yes, no problem. Well, a few months ago I called and tried to cancel the service and was told that I was in a 5 year contract and that I would have to pay out the remainder of the contract in order to get out of it.
Then recently I accidentally locked myself out of my house and had to climb in through a window. I crawled on the floor through my house so as not to set off the alarm, and then stood up to walk over to the alarm key pad to shut it off. When I stood up I expected to set it off for a few seconds, but nothing happened. So I walked back through my house, down the same path that I had just previously crawled down, and again, nothing. I walked right up to the sensor that supposedly was supposed to go off at the sign of an intruder, and nothing! I jumped up and down and waved my hands in front of it, turned lights on and off, and still nothing! So I called APX to complain about it and they sent someone out to service it a few days later. The man who came out to my house determined that the people who had installed it had put it too high up on the wall, so it wasn't sensing any motion. (So for the last year I had been paying for an alarm that wasn't even working effectively)! So he re-installed a new one farther down on the wall, exposing screw holes, peeling paint, and holes where chunks of plaster had fallen out where the prevoius unit had been installed. He tested it out in front of me and it didn't work the first time, but worked the second. He told me that it would be fine in a few hours.
So the next day I climbed in through the window again to test out the new unit, and guess what!?? It still didn't go off! I had to place my hand over the unit and physically touch it in order to set it off. I just placed another call to APX and they're going to send out another repair man to look at it.
Help! APX Security Solutions should be put out of business! This company's sales pitch is full of deceitful lies to get you to sign a bogus contract, and their equipment is defective and faulty! I want out of this contract and I don't want to give them any more of my hard earned money! Please let me know if anyone is filing a class action lawsuit against this company and count me in! HELP!!!!
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#1 Consumer Comment
Dude that wants to Debate
AUTHOR: ttt - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, April 05, 2010POSTED: Monday, April 05, 2010
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#2 Consumer Comment
I disagree
AUTHOR: Amber - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, March 02, 2010POSTED: Tuesday, March 02, 2010
We all had pretty much the same sales pitch at our door, but we should all read contracts before signing. I knew full well what I was getting into and glad that I did. I signed a contract to lock in my rate for 5 years.
Remember that the alarm system itself is manufactured by Honeywell. I am sure that you have also purchased items in your lifetime that didn't work and you had to return them. Did you stop going to that store because a product didn't work? Walmart would be out of business if that were the case.
I have had a similar issue with my motion detector and I had a technician at my house the next day to replace it with no questions asked. You don't know that the motion detector didn't work for an entire year.....I also had a big hole put in one of my walls during the initial installation where the unit could not be put up due to cross studs. I called the company, supplied them with an estimate to fix the wall and I received a check within a week. I also had my sign stolen from my front yard last year, so I called APX and they sent me a new one, again with no questions asked. I find your story hard to believe as I have never had an issue with this company and have never talked with someone that wasn't helpful. Sometimes I set my alarm off just to test the response time and the longest so far was 15 seconds till APX was calling. If you have a delay set up on your pad, you can test each entry point to ensure that it is working properly. I think that you are over reacting. I have heard much worse things about ADT and Brinks. I know that I will be renewing my contract when it comes due in 3 years.
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#3 UPDATE EX-employee responds
APX doesn't do full line seizure
AUTHOR: alrmtech - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, February 16, 2010POSTED: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
To the former APX employee - No, many APX Technicians would not know what full line seizure is if it bit them on the a*s. I installed for APX for one summer and we were not required to do full line seizure. I had friends in other offices at APX and they were not required to do full line seizure. The office I went with did not do full line seizure in the summers before I joined them.
Also I have done APX takeovers, because I worked for a different company last summer, and out of about 40 there was 2 that had full line seizure. We did hundreds of APX takeovers last summer and all the others techs I worked with claimed that they rarely, if ever, saw an APX system with full line seizure.
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#4 UPDATE EX-employee responds
AUTHOR: eeeeek - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, November 28, 2009POSTED: Saturday, November 28, 2009
It seems you are bitter over the success these companies are having and the business you are losing. Maybe you feel that you got burned by one of these companies in the pas. I don't know, nor do I care. If you lived in Provo or knew anyone that worked for these companies, you would know they have nothing to do with each other.
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#5 Consumer Suggestion
AUTHOR: OnlineAlarmQuotes - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, November 27, 2009POSTED: Friday, November 27, 2009
They are shady as can be. Whether you guys were pitching Monitronics or pitching ADT through the RS&I program that Gary Olsen allowed you scammers access to it's been nothing but constant consumer complaints. I can completely embarrass the hell out of you, and out of your company by posting absolute proof to back up my claims. You'd be best served spending your time trying to rectify the numerous consumer complaints than trying to trade shots with me. The security industry would be better off if the lowlife flim-flammers from Provo would go away.
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#6 UPDATE EX-employee responds
When will people get their stories straight!
AUTHOR: eeeeek - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, November 26, 2009POSTED: Thursday, November 26, 2009
To the military customer, what you are saying is not the accurate policy for military customers.
To the comment about APX being in hot water with the Illinois state government, that is COMPLETLY FALSE! Only Pinnacle is in "hot water" as you said, and the article you posted does not even mention APX once!
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#7 Consumer Suggestion
APX/Pinnacle in hot water with the Illinois AG
AUTHOR: OnlineAlarmQuotes - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, November 06, 2009POSTED: Friday, November 06, 2009
Regardless of what they say they are the SAME company. My company was a service dealer for these scammers. We contracted with them to service their accounts when their 'summer program' ended. The shoddy workmanship, brutal contract terms, and lousy customer service was enough to make you scream.
In my new career I have a standing order that at no time whatsoever are we to allow companies like this access to our consumer database.
It's depressing to watch fly-by-night mass marketers destroy an industry that is still home to many thousands of quality installers. The problem we have to overcome is getting the word out to the end-users that skilled technicians are available, but it's next to impossible to spread that word when the airwaves are bombarded with offers for so-called free systems. Consumers fall for that "free alarm" gimmick all too often.
Stay clear of these weasels. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and even if there was I doubt it would be something any of us would want to eat.
I am imploring everyone that reads this to please stop and do some research before you contract with an alarm company. Educate yourselves on how systems work and what systems are best for your application. Get at least 5 or 6 quotes from local vendors. Ask for references.
My security-related websites offer generic yet highly useful information to the consumer, as do many other sites, so please make use of the information available on the world wide web to better protect yourselves.
Good luck.
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#8 Consumer Comment
Also scammed
AUTHOR: NotPleased - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 03, 2009POSTED: Tuesday, November 03, 2009
I'll file this as a seperate report too, but I wanted to show by replying that I would also be interested in a class action suit if one was ever brought against this company.
A year ago APX home security came to our home with a "Promotional Offer". They were trying to get word of their service out in our area, so were offering a free alarm system, all we had to pay was an installation fee, and a monthly security fee of $45. When we sold the house I called and asked about stopping service and was informed that we had four years left on our contract, and could either transfer it to someone else, or pay a fee to break the contract, the fee being ($45) x (the number of months left in the contract). Is this legal? Their pretty much telling me that I have to pay them for 4 years of service that they won't be providing.
My husband is active duty military. When offered this "deal" we specifically asked if we would have trouble getting out of the contract if we moved on base, to another country, or to a rental that didn't want a system installed. The representative told us that in any of those cases we would be able to get out of the contract for little or no fee.
We, obviously, live in a military area. I can't help but feel that this company is purposely going after military members and others who move frequently, knowing that they will be able to get us to pay them for services they won't be able to provide. I have filed a report against them with the BBB. It has also occured to me that since we are unable to use their system in our new home, they are breaking contract with us by not providing the service we are paying them for. We cannot afford the pay the full amount to break the contract, so are still paying them $45 a month for nothing.
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None of the information Kenny Durham gives his potential clients or seminar attendees is fact. IT IS A LIE. He has never negotiated a licensing deal, secured venture capital or had anything to do with start-up concepts except Innovators Warehouse where he uses the success of others to his own pursuit. Even mark Reyland. Ask him for references prior to to provide them prior to 2009 and Innovators Warehouse and he will never provide them. He wouldn't for me. I was going to do business with Innovators Warehouse after seeing them at a trade show with Mark Reyland and was SO glad I did my research first.
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Innovators Warehouse Kenny Durham
AUTHOR: Kenny Asked For It - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, June 27, 2011POSTED: Monday, June 27, 2011
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#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company
IW Recent Client Feedback
AUTHOR: Kenny Durham - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, June 27, 2011POSTED: Monday, June 27, 2011
I would like to take a moment and thank you and your company for the services that you have provided for me and my EasyClean duster product.
When you first create a product as an inventor and are looking for someone to help take it to market you are bombarded by companies promising many things. It can be very confusing and I have appreciated your honest approach as an individual and also Innovators Warehouse business model to introduce products into the market place the most effective and economical way. I think its every inventors fear to be taken for thousands of dollars and get nowhere and you have the inventor in mind.
As a result of working with IW, I am currently working with a company which has access to 50,000 retail stores and I am very excited about the possibility of getting my product in stores. I would recommend your services to any new inventor with a product or idea to use your services there at Innovators Warehouse.
Best Regards,
Brett Thomas
Inventor-EasyClean Duster
The best blind and shutter duster on the planet
Dear Kenny,
Thank you very much for helping me sell my trademark. It was clear from the start that you knew exactly what you were doing. Not many companies can boast that they got their client five times more than the original offer. FIVE TIMES MORE!! Wow. All I can say is you exceeded my expectations and I look forward to working with you again.
Todd White
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I was first referred to Kenny Durham of Innovators Warehouse by Mark Reyland of United Inventors Association USA (www.uiausa.org). Mark described Kenny to be a very honest and professional person. I have since found that to be absolutely true!
As the owner of Around the Table games, I consulted with Kenny to help me prepare to search for a Licensee for my product line. Ironically, I was offered a licensing agreement about that same time. So my focus with Kenny shifted to that of consultant. Kennys experience negotiating agreements allowed him to offer numerous suggestions that helped me to draft a comprehensive agreement while protecting my best interests.
I have found Kenny and the staff at Innovators Warehouse to be the most knowledgeable, professional and motivated group of people to work with. I have since referred numerous other inventors to Innovators Warehouse.
Innovators Warehouse is the perfect resource for inventors!
Beth Daniels
Founder, Around the Table Games
Thanks IW Crew!
I spent countless hours trying to put together my own marketing plan, materials and contact list without any success. I was at a dead end and for my idea to make it anywhere I needed help. After working with the team at Innovators Warehouse, I feel like the ball is finally rolling. They have surpassed all my expectations when designing marketing materials and have gone above and beyond anything I could have asked for. On top of this, I feel confident they are getting my idea in front of all the right people. Im one step closer thanks to you.
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#3 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mellennium Marketing at it again!
AUTHOR: Kenny Durham - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, June 24, 2011POSTED: Friday, June 24, 2011
How do you get a different person every time you call if I am a one man show? That takes talent!
Our graphic artist was good enough for Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch so I am sure his work speaks for itself. Oh wait a minute, I am a one man show, lol. We cant have a graphic artist? Hmm....
I dont remember contracting with a client named "Kenny Asked For It?" You must either be a race horse or the same person Stephanie and/or Scott Norman, owners of Millennium Marketing Group, who keepS making up all the other client names too for these phony complaints. We still do not have a single real complaint. Our clients love us!!!
As always if our clients dont like our work they dont pay. Please see samples of our work on our facebook page. Just go to facebook and look up Innovators Warehouse and take a look at the gallery.
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He's theatrical..
I like this particular strip only some of them are more than just one panel. Up to 7 large panels. Great intellectual fodder too for conversation.
Uh, the face that shows that he is indeed a zombie.
Hope this is a hit.
It's already a hit. That's why it's here.
Had a friend whose wife divorced him, accusing him of all kinds of crap. Got the kids, home, everything, plus a restraining order.
About 3 months later, he was watching football with a friend one Sunday when he got a call from his ex-wife.
She was screaming about one of their kids drowning in the pool – very hysterical.
He yelled at her to call 911, got in his car with his friend, and drove over to his former home, now his ex-wife's.
When they arrived, the police were waiting and arrested him for violating the restraining order. There was nothing wrong with the kids.
Later he was released because of his friend's testimony and the fact that his phone message recorder was on during the phone call.
Guess what? The wife still ended up keeping everything including the kids!
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If IMGN gets taken over by Roche, what happens to all of IMGN options that you are holding on?
I think you would simply just be lucky if you timed your option purchase to coincide with a Roche buy out. What would happen depends entirely on which options you pick, keep in mind that option value deteriorates with time. But here is a for example; You buy $12 strike price January call options and they cost $1. Roche buys IMGN for $16 before these expire, so your $12 option would be $4 in the money, so you might reasonably expect them to be worth $4 and some change.
If you are that bullish you can also sell puts against the stock. The risk you run here is that no buy out comes and the stock is below the strike price of the puts you sold, thus you would be required to purchase the stock, i.e. the option holder would put the stock to you. If the stock trades sideways or a buyout does come, you keep all the money from the sold puts. So no upside to the buyout from Roche if it were to happen.
Everyone and their hamster knows that TDM1 is going to be approved, just when it happens no one knows. So TDM1 approval is likely going to be a non-event for the stock price. Why has Roche not purchased IMGN by now? They better than anyone know how valuable TDM1 is to them, so I can only assume that they are OK with just paying the small royalty to IMGN and are not interested in buying them. Why people think that TDM1 approval somehow triggers this or takes all the risk out of buying IMGN just doesn't make sense to me.
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It would be far better donate to a good organization like Samaritan's Purse than to waste them on buying IMGN options at this point. At lease you would be doing some good and get a tax break. All long IMGN calls eventually go to zero!


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- Understanding shading concepts
- Simulating the Fresnel effect for realistic reflections
- Rendering transparent and translucent surfaces
- Comparing mental ray and Maya standard shaders
- Introducing the mia_material
- Developing shader networks
- Using subsurface scattering shaders
- Mapping polygon UV coordinates
- Incorporating texture nodes into networks
- Improving skin detail with ambient occlusion
- Painting bump maps
- Creating normal and displacement maps
- Troubleshooting maps
Skill Level Intermediate
In this movie, I'm going to talk about some common problems that you may encounter when applying displacement maps that have been created in other programs. For example, I'd like to apply a displacement map that I created in ZBrush to this character that I'm rendering here in Maya. So, let's take a look at first how we can do this. Here's is a character right now with his skin shading network almost complete. I've got a subsurface scattering going, add a little bit of an ambient inclusion, I have a normal map applied, but to really make the details pop out and look more realistic, I'm going to add a displacement map to the surface.
So, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to select the surface and I'm going to create what's known as an Approximation node. So I'm going to go to Windows > Rendering > Editors > mental ray > Approximation Editor. And what this does is the approximation node actually subdivides the surface at render time allowing for more detail that can be used for displacements, so when the displacement texture is applied to the surface, so that at render time the surface is subdivided allowing for more detail to come through from the displacement texture.
So to create the node, I'll go to the mental ray Approximation Editor and under Subdivision I'm going to press the Create button. As long as I have the surface selected here in the scene, it's going to automatically apply this node to the surface, so I'll just choose Create and then it creates the node and it opens up in the Attribute Editor. There are several methods for creating a subdivision approximation. I'll just leave it at Parametric because that usually works pretty well for me and I am going to leave N Subdivisions at 2. What this setting basically determines is how many times a surface is going to be subdivided during the rendering process.
So I actually start with a value 2, and then if I need more, I can adjust it upwards. So now that has been applied, the next thing I need to do is hook up the displacement texture to my shading network. So I'll select the surface and open up the skinShader and what I need to do is I need to get to the shading group node above the skinShader, so I am going to Hypershade, right-click over the skinShader, and choose graph network. Let's take a look at the work area, so I am going to zoom in here and I'll select the skinShader and choose Graph, Input and Output Connections, and now I can see there is the shading group node right there.
So, I'm going to click on the checkerboard icon next to Displacement material in the misss_fast_skin_maya_2SG node. Actually what I might do is rename that real quick. Let's call this skinShaderSG. There we go. Now I'm going to click on the checkerboard icon next to Displacement. I'll choose File. I don't need to do anything here. I'll go to the file node and I'm going to click on the folder next to Image Name, and I'm going to use the madHatter1-DM.tif. This is a file that was created in ZBrush, where I also created the character. So I'll choose Open and this applies it.
I'm going to turn the Filtering to off, and since displacement maps take a while to render, let's just select a region and render just part of the image. Okay, this looks pretty good. Let's render the whole image. There we go. It looks pretty good. What happens when things go wrong? Let's take a look at a few things that might go wrong with that displacement textures. Now for one thing, if you don't have Alpha Is Luminance checked, this can sometimes cause problem, so I'm going to deselect Alpha Is Luminance and render a region again.
So you can see now what we have is something that looks like from a medical oddities textbook, so definitely a problem, and this is something that you can frequently encounter when you're rendering with displacement maps especially if they have been created in other programs. Now if Alpha Is Luminance is off, then it doesn't know how to interpret the alpha values to create the amount of displacements. You want to make sure that Alpha Is Luminance is turned on. Another common problem can be the settings with the Alpha Gain and the Alpha Offset.
In this case a value of 1 and a value of 0 works just fine. But depending on how the displacement map is made some programs interpret the light and dark values of displacement textures differently from Maya. ZBrush has been updated so that a value of 1 and a value of 0 usually work fine, but if you're using an older version of ZBrush, you might also encounter a similar type of bloating when you render even when Alpha Is Luminance is turned on. So in this case, what you want to do is set the Alpha Offset to minus one-half of the Alpha Gain, so this would be - 0.5 and this would be a value of 5.
In this case, it's working just fine, so I don't need to adjust those. So that's another frequent problem that you have. You might want to check how your program interprets displacement values. The way Maya works is that a value of black, in other words a zero value, means no displacement. A positive values means displacement outward, so lighter values means displacement outwards and negative values mean displacement inwards. Some programs create displacement maps where a value of gray is no displacement, values lighter than gray displays outwards, and values darker than gray displays inwards.
So in this situation if you're using a displacement map created in a program such as this and this is how ZBrush used to interpret displacement maps, you'd have to adjust the Alpha Offset so it's minus one-half of the Alpha Gain. Therefore I'm putting adjusting the values so that they go into the negative range. The other thing you need to look out for is a displacement map is affected by scale. So in other words, if this is a character that I needed to scale later on for some reason, like let's say it decided to grow really large in scene or I needed to adjust to scale to fit him into another scene, you'll need to adjust the Alpha Gain.
An easy way to do that is to set the Alpha Gain equal to the scale X of the object. So in other words the object itself is called oldMan. This is the name of the character in this version of the scene. So what I would need to do is go into the file texture used for the displacement, this texture right here, and one way you could do this is I could type in =oldMan.scaleX;.
And you can see this turns purple, meaning there is an expression. So that means that if I start to scale the oldMan up or down, the displacement texture automatically updates. So now that the oldMan is scaled up to 1.77 in X. The Alpha Gain is adjusted as well. So that's something that you need to be aware of. And then finally if you've find that your displacement map is lacking the detail that you think it should have, you can adjust the number of subdivisions, so I can pump this up to 3 and do another render. This will add to render time so you have to be careful, and if you make the value too high it can also cause mental ray to crash, so be careful when you start to crank that up.
And there's the final textured and displaced character and it looks pretty good. I frequently get this warning here that says Failed to open texture file displacement map.tif. I believe this is mental ray. It does not like the TIF format, so you get this warning because it's having a hard time creating a little preview icon for the displacement map. However, you know if I get this warning, usually displacement works just fine, especially if you remember to go into Settings/Preferences and under the Rendering menu activate Use optimized textures.
If you turn this on then displacement map should work just fine, even if you do get that warning. There you have it, a nice textured looking character, and he probably could go for some animation at this point.


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|Water deficit improved the capacity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) for inducing the accumulation of antioxidant compounds in lettuce leaves
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|Baslam, Marouane ; Goicoechea, Nieves
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|Mycorrhiza 22: 347- 359 (2012)
|Lettuce, a major food crop within the European Union and the most used for the so-called 'Fourth Range' of vegetables, can associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Mycorrhizal symbiosis can stimulate the synthesis of secondary metabolites, which may increase plant tolerance to stresses and enhance the accumulation of antioxidant compounds potentially beneficial to human health. Our objectives were to assess (1) if the application of a commercial formulation of AMF benefited growth of lettuce under different types and degrees of water deficits; (2) if water restrictions affected the nutritional quality of lettuce; and (3) if AMF improved the quality of lettuce when plants grew under reduced irrigation. Two cultivars of lettuce consumed as salads, Batavia Rubia Munguía and Maravilla de Verano, were used in the study. Four different water regimes were applied to both non-mycorrhizal and mycorrhizal plants: optimal irrigation (field capacity [FC]), a water regime equivalent to 2/3 of FC, a water regime equivalent to 1/2 of FC and a cyclic drought (CD). Results showed that mycorrhizal symbiosis improved the accumulation of antioxidant compounds, mainly carotenoids and anthocyanins, and to a lesser extent chlorophylls and phenolics, in leaves of lettuce. These enhancements were higher under water deficit than under optimal irrigation. Moreover, shoot biomass in mycorrhizal lettuces subjected to 2/3 of FC were similar to those of non-mycorrhizal plants cultivated under well-watered conditions. In addition, lettuces subjected to 2/3 FC had similar leaf RWC than their respective well-watered controls, regardless of mycorrhizal inoculation. Therefore, results suggest that mycorrhizal symbiosis can improve quality of lettuce and may allow restrict irrigation without reducing production. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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While looking over the pictures of the recently renovated Martin Luther King skating rink, it brought back many nostalgic memories of my youth. When I was a child, I lived in the Bailey-Delevan area of Buffalo. Skating was my favorite winter pastime and I always dreamed of becoming a skating star aka Sonja Henie.
My mother would give me a quarter and I would board the streetcar to the park. I think the fare was five cents at the time. It was so much fun making figure eights and skating backward with one leg extended in the air.
At the end of my skating session, instead of boarding the streetcar again, I would save the money for an important ritual on the return home. I would walk down Genesee Street to a candy and soda shop called Wicks near Moselle Street. There I would ponder whether to spend the remaining money on a huge molasses sucker dipped in chocolate (10 cents) or a delicious hot fudge sundae. After warming up, I was ready to walk the rest of the way home – one happy kid with a lot of memories of a good skate at the park.
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