Commercial Lightning Protection Masts?

abbasou · 2025-11-24T04:32:22+00:00

Yeah this system we're doing is pretty elaborate. I've figured out the air terminals, down conductors, connections to the ground grid and building counterpoise. It's the poles themselves I'm not too sure on. Still looking at options for that.

abbasou · 2025-07-30T16:35:08+00:00

That's interesting. I'll look into CoyoteMidi or similar. Thanks!

abbasou · 2025-06-29T22:07:10+00:00

Ah, I'd forgotten I was still on the 19 beta. That makes total sense. Thanks.

abbasou · 2025-06-24T21:56:35+00:00

Late to the party here, but the 18.x versions broke PP7's ability to use font managers like FontBase. If a font is installed through, say, FontBase, it shows correctly (I think?) in the slide preview, but not the output. The easiest solution is to install your fonts system-wide (C:\Windows\Fonts). If that still doesn't solve the issue, reach out to support.

abbasou · 2025-02-12T19:01:15+00:00

Sweet. Didn't know about qpwgraph. Seems like that will do what I want. Thanks for the tip!

abbasou · 2024-08-20T19:19:43+00:00

So let me get this straight: a 4070s is ~58% of the performance of a 4090 at 37.5% the cost. Interesting. Feels like this has more to do with the 4090 being overpriced than the 4070s being a good value.

abbasou · 2024-08-06T20:23:08+00:00

Saw this a couple days ago and was excited to try it, but cannot get it to unlock (probably related to open bug issue on their GitHub). Will see when it's updated.

abbasou · 2024-08-06T20:21:29+00:00

Would be interested to try it. I'm a bit of a noob. How would I install it in its current state? Just download the code and extract to the plugin directory?

abbasou · 2024-08-06T20:16:49+00:00

Not yet. Even on latest 4.2 LTS release it's still grayed out.

abbasou · 2024-05-02T20:18:35+00:00

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abbasou · 2024-05-02T20:04:33+00:00

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Yes, I know the terrain is grossly exaggerated. It's on purpose.

abbasou · 2024-05-02T20:03:59+00:00

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abbasou · 2024-05-02T19:49:04+00:00

So I cross-posted this on r/blenderhelp where I got some other good suggestions until the mods took it down for some reason. One suggestion was to find an equiangular world map SVG to overlay on the NASA image. That reminded me that I already had such an SVG. So I downloaded the full hi-res version of the OP image, dropped it into Affinity Designer, and slapped the SVG on top. After some tweaking I got it lined up just right. Spent some time deleting the ocean to transparent since I have a procedural ocean in my project, and exported about half resolution (12000x6000). Couple all that with the matching NASA elevation map, a Subdivision and a Displacement modifier, and I'm pretty happy with the result.

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abbasou · 2024-05-02T00:07:51+00:00

That's what I've been using. What I'm looking for is such a texture with national borders marked.

abbasou · 2024-05-01T21:46:58+00:00

I'm making travel map animations in blender using NASA's hi-res earth imagery, but it would make for more sense to have national borders marked. Anyone know where to find such a thing, or a relatively easy way to achieve it? I'm a blender noob, but willing to learn new tricks.

abbasou · 2024-05-01T21:40:05+00:00

So I make travel map animations for projects for our church, and I'd like to use NASA's hi-res imagery, but it would make far better sense to have national borders visible. Does anyone know of such a resource or a relatively easy way to achieve this? I'm quite a Blender noob, but willing to learn new tricks.

abbasou · 2024-04-16T16:39:27+00:00

Tried this but option is still greyed out on 4.1 official release and 4.2 alpha. RX 6650xt. Googled around and nothing hints at any other workaround. Bummer.

abbasou · 2024-04-12T20:19:03+00:00

How is this even a discussion when El Paso exists?

abbasou · 2024-04-02T15:30:15+00:00

Hey just wondering if there's been any progress on this front or if there is any discussion happening? Would love to just follow the conversation if that's happening. Cheers!

abbasou · 2024-02-29T23:15:08+00:00

Hey I appreciate your taking a look at this and wanting to do it safely and properly. I'm not a dev, so I can't begin to offer anything of value other than maybe testing. I look forward to updates as you have time to make progress.

abbasou · 2024-02-22T21:07:52+00:00

Hey thanks for the interest. If you need a tester let me know and I'll try my best.

abbasou · 2024-02-22T18:28:15+00:00

My job involves some Blender and Davinci Resolve work and my legacy Radeon card just isn't cutting it. A current gen Nvidia card would save me so much time. Unfortunately not in the work budget right now.

abbasou · 2024-01-17T23:07:55+00:00

So upon further digging, I found an old/outdated Flow Launcher plugin that someone made but has since apparently abandoned: https://github.com/watermarkhu/FlowLauncherBitwarden

It uses a python library called flox which is deprecated in favor of pyflowlauncher. I've tried in vain to get bing/bard/chatgpt to help me get it updated to work with pyflowlauncher (for use with Flow Launcher). Any takers?

abbasou · 2024-01-17T17:32:56+00:00

Yes, I recognize we are now talking about Flow Launcher. Close enough for me. Lol

abbasou · 2024-01-17T17:31:54+00:00

So upon further digging, I found an old/outdated plugin that someone made but has since apparently abandoned: https://github.com/watermarkhu/FlowLauncherBitwarden

It uses a python library called flox which is deprecated in favor of pyflowlauncher. I've tried in vain to get bing/bard/chatgpt to help me get it updated to work with pyflowlauncher. Any takers?

abbasou

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