Geo mesh wreaths

When you use a vface asset from Texture.xyz can you use the GEO mesh that comes with it and wrap it to your sculpt and use that as your new base mesh? I was seeing that you could but my question then is, is retopo needed since the mesh normally has good UVs and topology with it? Also if you use the GEO mesh wrapped to your model as the base mesh what other steps are needed to finalize your base mesh besides adding the albedo, displacement and utility maps to it? i am new to using texture xyz assets and am having a little trouble fully understanding how the workflow should work properly. any advice would be helpful. Thanks

Hey all. I would like to export animated geo to Houdini but, the geo is not rigged and has no armature. I parented all the objects to an empty and animated the empty because it was a simple animation. How do I properly export the geo so that it is all animated correctly (for example baking the mesh doesn't work because technically the mesh is not animated, the empty is and when I tried animated a piece of the geo instead and parenting the other objects to said geo, only the animated piece was baked and the other geo remained stationary). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The episode came back to the Grips walking off their team's bleachers at the badminton court, Anne Maria and Millie at the front followed by Topher and Justin. The model lingered briefly before grabbing Topher by the arm and holding him back.
“Hey! Why are you holding me back?” Topher gave him an inquisitive look.
"We need to talk about the vote should we lose today," Justin said.
“I can see where this is going,” Topher mused.
"Me and you aren't voting ourselves off, obviously, and I know you'll throw a fit if I even consider Anne Maria, so that would leave us with Millie," Justin considered.
“I'm already on board, Justin, but I'm not sure if my girlfriend would vote for her after your poor choice of words earlier on,” Topher said.
“I'm already aware of that, but I know how to get Anne Maria on our side,” Justin said. “I'm not going to flirt with her, per say. I know she's taken. Just convince her in my own special way.”
“Anne Maria's got some pretty strong loyalty to me, so you'll obviously fail if you try to make a move on her or get socked in the eye,” Topher reminded him.
“As a bonus, with Millie gone, you'll get to spend more time with Anne Maria, Topher,” Justin informed the fanboy. “She and Millie are usually together before you came into the season.”
"You've got yourself a deal already," Topher said with a smirk.
The footage flashed forward to the castmates sitting on wooden bleachers inside another studio, separated by team with Gaffers on the left and Grips on the right.
"I wonder which athletic player I'm going to be up against?" Topher said to Millie. "I've already beaten Jasmine before, so I'd like to do it again, but I think I'd prefer going up against Chase."
"This is because you think Chase is weaker than Jasmine, right?" Millie told Topher. "He's more capable than you think and can handle his own battles."
"I'm not saying that he's weak at all," Topher tried to clarify.
“Right,” Millie dully remarked with a roll of her eyes.
"SILENCE!" Chris shouted in an odd but dramatic accent, earning the attention of all eight contestants. He was dressed in nothing but a toga and a head wreath, standing in a chariot being pulled by a helmeted Chef Hatchet. A suitably dramatic piece of music began in the background as he continued. "The score is one to one! And now, second-seat Topher will be competing," he said as the chariot came to a halt in front of the bleachers, "in Grrrreco-Rrrrroman wrrrrestling with," the camera panned to reveal that they were in front of the same ring that had been used for the boxing match, "Jasmine!"
The tall Aussie grinned.
Confessional: Topher
"I gotta say," Topher told the confessional camera, "I am out of my league wrestling a girl who's shoulders my head can't even reach. It was one thing when it was knocking her into a tar pit with a bone. This time, I am completely powerless, but I have to try!"
Confessional: Jasmine
"I'm really stoked for this competition," Jasmine told the camera confidently. "For one, my intimidating physique will come in handy in a fight, and this will be a great opportunity to gain the trust of my new teammates."
Confessionals End
Jasmine was stretching in her swimsuit in the right corner when the footage resumed, smirking cockily across the ring. The camera panned over to Topher, also in his swimming trunks, but looking quite assured.
"I really wish that Jasmine was faster than Chase, but then again, Chase has lightning speed," Topher whispered before the shot panned over to Chris, who smiled impishly and pulled a rope that was hanging next to him.
The camera zoomed out as a high-walled glass box filled with colorful plastic balls was dropped into the ring on top of the contestants, a few balls scattering on the floor with the impact. The castmates on the stands looked shocked and surprised, and Jasmine popped back up completely flabbergasted, spitting one of the balls out of her mouth.
"We have to wrestle in a ball pit?" Jasmine asked with disbelief after wiping her mouth with the back of her arm.
"A seriously disgusting one," Topher echoed, surfacing nearby with a used diaper on his head. He tossed it away with a look of horror and faced the host. "Where did you get this from, anyway?"
"The local carnival," Chris answered happily. "They were pretty cheap, too, so those balls haven't been cleaned in, oh, ever. Now play ball!" He picked up a large curved brass horn and blew a few notes, signaling the start of the match.
Topher was the first to move, diving into the balls while Jasmine watched and looked around with planned caution. The fanboy resurfaced seconds later, pouncing on the Outback girl's back, who yelped in fright. He quickly put her in a headlock, but it quickly became apparent that Jasmine wasn't budging.
In fact, her shock quickly faded into annoyance, and she grabbed Topher by the arms and tried to pry him off her. "Just get off," Jasmine told the boy as he struggled to keep his hold. "You aren't gonna take me down so easily." She finally managed to break his grip, and tossed him lightly into the balls on his back.
"Quick, get him while he's down!" MK called from the sidelines, earning a nod from Jasmine.
She took a step towards Topher, but he got back up and tackled her in the stomach. The shot pulled back from the close-up of him pushing at her, to reveal that she stopped herself from falling over and grabbed Topher by the shoulders before forcing him away from her.
"Knock her out, baby!" Anne Maria called from the sidelines in excitement.
"Hey Chris," Jasmine asked, "how do we win this, per say?"
"I guess you could throw him out of the ring, but those walls are kinda high," Chris said after thinking.
Jasmine looked up at the top of the glass walls, then over to what looked like a mesh screen on one side. "I'm gonna do it," she said in determination.
"No you're not!" Topher countered, the camera cutting to him as he dived in and grabbed her leg, pulling it out and causing the Australian teen to fall backward, sending several balls and a baby bottle flying.
Topher took the opportunity to pounce forward onto her chest and grab her leg in an arm lock. "This does not count as me harming a lady, by the way," he told Jasmine. "Prepare to lose to-"
"Ma-ma?"
The music came to a complete stop, and the two competitors turned shocked looks to Topher's back, where a small and well-dressed child with curly black hair and glasses was clinging. Neither said anything, even as Chef suddenly descended from above on a rope harness, picked up the child, and ascended just as quickly.
Still wide-eyed with shock, Topher soon found himself getting flipped around as Jasmine broke out of his hold. "Time to put an end to this," she told him as she grabbed him by the waist and slung him over her shoulder, "once and for all." As he grunted and struggled to escape, she walked unflinchingly to the mesh part of the wall, ripped it open, and tossed Topher over the ropes and out of the ring.
The fanboy landed on his butt with a stunned look on his face, and Chris was next to him in moments. "And we have a winner!" he said with a grin, a victorious tune playing as the other Gaffers cheered.
Still in the ring, Jasmine cheered with her hands on her hips. "Now how ‘bout that for scoring one for the team?"
Confessional: Jasmine
"Topher would've had a good shot at beating me if it hadn't been for that kid," Jasmine told the confessional camera. "I do feel sorry for him about that, but my team has to score a win today."
Confessional Ends
The scene cut to a close-up of a smiling Chris walking across the football field used earlier that day. "So, as we head to the fourth and final leg of the Total Drama sports tournie, the Grips are ahead two to one." The four leading players were shown standing together and smiling at one another.
"The final face-off?" the host said as the shot pulled out, revealing that a small basketball court, net, and slanted trampoline had been set up. "A slam dunk competition, with points going to the most creative dunk. Let's play it for the camera! It's..." he said, passing a basketball across the court to the eye candy, who caught it and gave his competition a smirk, "Justin and Chase!"
The Grips were shown cheering for Justin, who still clutched the basketball in his hands as he looked confident. The shot panned over to Chase, also smiling confidently as his team cheered him on.
"Okay Chase, show them what a real athlete can do!" Ripper shouted.
"I'm looking forward to it!" Chase chuckled coolly.
Confessional: Chase
"This challenge was built for me!" Chase boasted in the make-up trailer. “No puzzles or tricks. Just me dribbling a ball and slam dunking! Swish!"
Confessional Ends
The footage cut back to a shot of the court, Justin standing at the left side of the center circle facing the trampoline and basket on the right, with Chase and Chris standing in the front right corner and the other six contestants along the far side of the court.
"All right. I call this the "Justin Freezes the Gaffers" Slam!" Justin announced. Chris blew his whistle and he got started, beginning with a few trick dribbles between and around his legs as he walked down the court to a jaunty whistling theme. “Hey! Keep watching!”
Justin walked past Chase and stopped nearby in order to give him a playful nudge to his arm. “Whoa! Hey!” he said and walked back to the court. He paused in front of Jasmine and Ripper. “Look out!” he warned the two as he slammed the ball under Jasmine's legs and onto Ripper's crotch, the latter groaning as the ball went back to Justin.
For his final act, Justin ran across the court and grabbed MK's hat off her head, prompting her to gasp. With both the ball and the hat in his possession, Justin placed the hat over the ball, jumped onto the trampoline, and slammed it through the hoop with only one hand.
He landed perfectly and walked back to his cheering teammates in victory.
The shot panned to the right to show Chase walking over to MK and giving her her hat back. “That was nothing!” Chase snorted. “I'll show them what a real slam dunk looks like!"
The scene cut to Chase at the center circle, already dribbling with a smile on his face. "I call this move the “Fly ‘Til You Cry” Dunk!"
“That's pretty creative,” Justin said from the same corner Chase had been standing in previously, but the stunt boy wasn't phased by it in the slightest.
A hard rock theme began to play as Chase dribbled hard a few times then ran down the court. He shot the ball high into the sky and dashed towards the trampoline. He proceeded to jump on the trampoline and bounced up, executing a front flip before scooping the descending ball and slamming it through the hoop.
He struck a pose as he landed, and the ball bounced off the court. "Point to Chase and the Gaffers!" Chris declared as both sidelined teams stood in stunned silence. "Prepare," the host said swiftly, leaning forward dramatically as the more generic background music that had resumed after the hard rock ended quickly rose in tension, "for the Ultimate Extreme Sports Tiebreaker!"
All eight teens looked wary at the announcement.
The scene flashed over to a jumbo screen set up by some fake buildings, the host appearing on it immediately. "Get ready for the battle of battles," Chris announced as an intense metal song played in the background. "The grudge match the world has been waiting for!" He slid off the screen to the right, only to slide back in from the left a moment later. "A competition so intense," he slid back to the left and reappeared from above, "so grueling," he slid back up, then popped in closer to the screen, "so..."
"So what is it already?!" Millie shouted up at the screen.
Chris blinked on the screen, which soon cut to static. The viewpoint shifted to a distance shot of the football field, now without any additional courts on it, as the host drove up in a golf cart holding several things of a distinctly pink color.
"Pompoms?!" Ripper exclaimed in disbelief after the host shook one of them.
"Yes!" Anne Maria cheered and stepped forward. "This is so much more my speed than badminton!"
"Glad to hear it," Chris told her with his trademark grin, "because the tiebreaker is a cheer-off between the Grips and the Gaffers. Each team's gotta dig deep, and create a cheer for someone they think deserves cheering."
The scene flashed again, showing the Gaffers in a huddle talking. The camera panned over to the Grips in a similar situation, and cut to a viewpoint looking up at them from inside their circle.
"I think we should just cheer for me," Justin suggested. "I'm the most good-looking guy on the show."
"Cheer for you?" Millie doubted. "Chris said we had to dig deep, and cheering for only you won't fit that criteria."
“We could cheer for the show and how famous it's making us,” Topher suggested.
“You all should listen to someone who's on the cheer team back home, i.e. me!" Anne Maria interrupted. "We're not gonna cheer for one person or a sadist show. That's not gonna work at all."
"So what are we going to cheer for?" Millie asked. “The other team are also working on how they're going to beat us!”
"We have to do something that has a lot of spirit," Anne Maria said. "Now listen up, this is what we're gonna do..."
The view flashed back outside the Grips' huddle just as Chris stepped towards them. "Time!" he called, getting their attention and breaking their huddle with a shake of his pompoms. "Grips up!"
Anne Maria took a deep breath and stepped forward. Taking the pompoms out of Chris' hands while a marching band drumline began in the background.
"Justin, Justin, he's our guy! He's got a dashing smile and he's looking pretty fly!" she chanted with a few twisting flips and back handsprings.
"Millie's the best and a savvy teen! She helps us stay so super lean!" She shook her pompoms around and did a few jumps.
"Topher is S L I C K! He makes us all pumped up every day!" She shook her pompoms a few more times and did some leg kicks as Topher, Millie, and Justin scurried into place behind her.
"Give it up, give it up, for Anne Maria! A dynamite gal, not a Cinderella! Goooooooo Grips!!" She finished with a spinning backflip just as her team unfurled a banner between them that read 'GO GRIPS!'.
The drumline ended, and the Grips were still in the poses they'd struck at the end of the cheer.
"Nice job," Chris told them. "Really speaks to cheerleading tradition. Gaffers," he turned to the other four, "your response?" Jasmine, Ripper, Chase, and MK nodded at each other, then lined up.
"Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris!" MK chanted to the tune of Men Without Hats’ “The Safety Dance”.
"Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris!" Chase joined in.
"Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris!" Ripper joined in next.
"Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris!" Jasmine finished off last.
"CHHHRRRRIIIIIIIISSSSSSS!" they all chanted as one in tune as they kneeled on one leg spontaneously.
"Amazing!" Chris gushed with absolute glee. "The rhythm, the synchronicity, the incredible kissing up!" he told the Gaffers. "We have the winners! And as for the losers," his face fell into a disappointed frown, "I'll see you in the theater!" He left the Gaffers to cheer with each other.
"And we were on a good winning streak!" Millie said from the sidelines, the other Grips looking just as disappointed about their loss.
For the first time since the previous Aftermath, the Gilded Chris Ceremony opened with its usual sequence and fanfare. The host and assistant were already on stage when the introduction ended, with Chef in his formal pink dress.
"So, the Grips lose for the first time since forever!" Chris said over a shot of the four teens casting their votes, Justin seated in the front row somewhat apart from the rest of his team. "Must be tough, especially for Topher since he just debuted!"
The camera focused on Topher, who was sitting in the second-highest row with Anne Maria a row below and Millie a few feet away from Justin. "Hey," he protested, "we had a good thing going!"
"Maybe, maybe not," Chris said with a grin before turning his gaze. "Justin sure didn't help with his loss to Chase in today's basketball match!"
Justin shrugged. "Not taking any responsibility for that one."
Chris carried on. "Meanwhile, despite actually winning in the boxing ring, Millie doesn't seem to have much going on!"
"I don't need to be manipulative in order to be interesting," Millie shot a pointed glare at Chris.
"Anne Maria!" Chris continued with a grin. "I'd say you're the only one here who might be safe!"
"No kiddin’," Anne Maria said. "Why else-"
"Oh, nobody wants to hear it," Chris interrupted. "Just take the statue!" He tossed a Gilded Chris to the Jersey girl, who glared but caught it anyway. The camera panned down to Topher, who was tossed an award as well, and he caught it happily. "Tango Fail, you're safe too!"
The focus moved over to the podium as Chris turned a solemn look over to Chef, who had but a single award left in his hands. The background music turned tense, and Justin and Millie were shown waiting for the reward.
"Justin, I'm sorry, but..." Chris said slowly and sorrowfully, attracting the eye candy's attention and putting confusion on his face and a smile on the author's, "...head's up!" He suddenly tossed the final Gilded Chris his way, and he caught it perfectly.
"Aww!" Millie pouted, standing up with a distraught expression. "I was so close to the merge."
“Sorry, but I had to vote for someone,” Topher said nonchalantly.
Confessional: Topher
"Justin's plan to get rid of Millie worked," Topher said in the confessional trailer with a smile. "Though I wonder how he convinced Anne Maria to vote for her."
Confessional: Justin
"I'm not saying I voted for Millie just because she said I'm not cute," Justin confessed calmly. "Okay, it was just because of that. Thing is, Anne Maria told me she was sending me home, even though I haven't tried to use my affections on her lately. So you see? I didn't lose my mojo. I just needed to shake things up. With my new patented, all-time lady-killing mega flip."
He slowly shook his head from one direction to the other, and his hair moved about even slower before falling back into its normal perfectly well-coiffed position. "I'm back, baby!"
Confessionals End
Chef Hatchet escorted Millie to the Walk of Shame. “Millie, wait up!!” The two were stopped by Chase running over to them.
“Chase?! What are you doing here?!” Millie wondered.
“I can't just let you go without a goodbye from me,” Chase explained.
“I'm sorry we can't make it to the merge together again, but only this time, the roles are reversed,” Millie said.
“Don't worry. I'll be fine by myself just like you were last season,” Chase comforted her. “And I will win this season for us! I guarantee that!”
“Make sure to watch out for MK,” Millie added. “Me and Jasmine are sure that she's up to something.”
“Hurry up, roaches!” Chef shouted impatiently, startling the two for a brief second.
“I have to go now! Remember that I'll be supporting you while watching the show,” Millie bid her goodbye before grabbing Chase by the face and giving him a quick kiss to the lips. Afterwards, she let go and walked the red carpet with Chef, Chase waving goodbye to her.
The scene flashed forward to Millie stepping into the limousine of losers, which sped off with a cloud of dust.
The scene cut to Chris in the boxing/wrestling ring. "Wow! Looks like Millie left us with a bit of a doozy!" Chris laughed, an energetic and sporty song starting up as he sported boxing gloves. "How's that for a dramatic sucker punch?" He threw a few test jabs in the direction of Chef, who was back in his normal clothes save a pair of dark pink boxing gloves.
"Will MK continue to stay in the bad guy corner? Are Topher and Anne Maria gonna kiss?" he asked while continuing to punch the air as he worked his way around an unimpressed Chef. "Am I gonna knock big ol' Chef out with my killer uppercut?"
He started to throw a punch at his assistant, but it was swiftly answered by a hammering fist that knocked the host off his feet. "Find out next time," he said as he got back to his feet and Chef walked away, "here, on Total! Drama! Action!"
(Roll the Credits)
(Bonus Clip)
"Honestly, I'm kind of happy to be going home today," Millie told the camera as she sat on the seat of the limousine. "The million dollars would have been great, but I'm sure I can make tons of money selling my finished book!" She whipped out her book from her pocket and showed it. “Thankfully, I didn't get framed for writing nasty stuff about the contestants like last time, and I certainly didn't have anyone drive a wedge between me and Chase. It would've been nice to spend more time with him, but we have to focus on our own interests and passions. And if he was to win the season, then that means I'd technically win as well. So it's basically a win-win for us." She sported a face of realization. “That was a bit of a mouthful.”
Eva - 15th
Geoff - 15th
Izzy - RETURNED
Trent - 13th
Sky - 12th
Brick - 11th
Scott - 10th
Izzy - 9th
Millie - 8th
Killer Grips: Anne Maria, Justin, Topher
Screaming Gaffers: Chase, Jasmine, MK, Ripper

I have an old WaterFurnace Premier 2 geothermal system, open loop, that runs off well water. Right now there is a spin down filter between the well and the geo. It has a 1” slip and currently has 60 mesh stainless steel screen. My problem is that it seems that too much sediment is still making it in to the system but the spin down filter ALSO gets clogged up pretty quickly. So I’m wondering if it’s a bad idea to step it up to a 100 mesh filter (or higher). My other thought was adding a second spin down filter with 100 mesh after the 60 mesh filter so the 60 mesh catches big pieces then feeds into the 100 mesh for a bit finer screening before feeding in. Would either of those options be too detrimental to flow rate into the system or cause any other problems? Any other suggestions would be welcome.

Hi everyone! So I'm trying to make a Globe component with map on it where I can paint countries in different color. I managed to make it so border color is changeable but all the time I try to paint inside with Shapes I end up either having map being flat in the middle of the sphere or when I properly wrap my sphere with a map some fillings go under the sphere mesh and are not being fully filled. I can solve it by changing elevation so map doesn't touch the sphere but then it looks not exactly how I want.
Can someone help me to figure out how to do? I also don't have much of experience with webgl to be honest.
Here is my current component code, would to figure out how to make those countries that are in the code have painted border to have filling inside too.

import { useState, useRef, useEffect } from "react"; import { useFrame } from "@react-three/fiber"; import * as THREE from "three"; import { json } from "d3-fetch"; function Globe() { const meshRef = useRef(); const [geoJson, setGeoJson] = useState(null); useEffect(() => { json( "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/D3-graph-gallery/masteDATA/world.geojson" ) .then((data) => { setGeoJson(data); }) .catch((error) => console.error("Error fetching GeoJSON:", error)); }, []); useFrame(() => { if (meshRef.current) { // Rotate the globe meshRef.current.rotation.y += 0.015; // Smoothly adjust the tilt using a sinusoidal function const tiltAngle = (Math.sin(meshRef.current.rotation.y / 3) * Math.PI) / 12; // Max tilt 15 degrees meshRef.current.rotation.x = tiltAngle; } }); if (!geoJson) return null; const radius = 3; // Radius of the globe const elevation = 0.01; // Elevation above the globe surface const latLonToVector3 = (lat, lon, radius, elevation = 0) => { const phi = (90 - lat) * (Math.PI / 180); const theta = (lon + 180) * (Math.PI / 180); const x = -(radius + elevation) * Math.sin(phi) * Math.cos(theta); const y = (radius + elevation) * Math.cos(phi); const z = (radius + elevation) * Math.sin(phi) * Math.sin(theta); return new THREE.Vector3(x, y, z); }; const createCountryBorders = (coordinates) => { const shapeVertices = coordinates[0].map(([lon, lat]) => latLonToVector3(lat, lon, radius, elevation) ); const geometry = new THREE.BufferGeometry().setFromPoints(shapeVertices); return geometry; }; const generateCountryLines = () => { return geoJson.features.flatMap((feature, index) => { const { type, coordinates } = feature.geometry; const countryName = feature.properties.name; let color = "#e4e4e7"; // Default color if (countryName === "Poland") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Germany") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Belarus") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "France") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Italy") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Spain") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Portugal") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Netherlands") { color = "#ef4444"; } else if (countryName === "Belgium") { color = "#ef4444"; } const countryGroup = new THREE.Object3D(); if (type === "Polygon") { const geometry = createCountryBorders(coordinates); const material = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({ color }); const line = new THREE.Line(geometry, material); countryGroup.add(line); } else if (type === "MultiPolygon") { coordinates.forEach((polygon) => { const geometry = createCountryBorders(polygon); const material = new THREE.LineBasicMaterial({ color }); const line = new THREE.Line(geometry, material); countryGroup.add(line); }); } else { console.warn("Unsupported geometry type:", type); } return ; }); }; return (      {generateCountryLines()}  ); } export default Globe; 

Please let me know if I need to clarify question somehow or if I'm missing some details. As I said I'm really new to threejs.

Hi all! I’m in a theatre theme craft exchange and my recipients favorite musical is Hadestown. the problem is that I don’t know it at all and am struggling to find a craft that relates with my limited knowledge- the only thing I’ve found so far is crocheting the flower.
exchange rules: craft can be completed in less than a day and requires no more than $15 in new materials (stash busting is encouraged).
my crafts: crochet, sewing, vinyl crafting, deco mesh wreaths (though those are $$$ to ship), dabble in painting and several other things
since you all love Hadestown, I was hoping you might have some ideas or inspiration for me?
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Hi, I’m all alone in bumfuck nowhere and everyone is asleep. What do you think of these flowers? 💖
They’re for the memorial for my spouse’s simple and “country” southern Granny. My plans for them fell through over and over - this is what I came up with. Floral foam on a wreath base inside.
I see some gaps now and I might fill it with some deco mesh in the very back for the sake of time. The wreath needs some more love but I have a handful of roses and a lot of baby’s breath to add. Costco sent the wrong color roses and didn’t give me the snapdragons they promised, just baby’s breath.

I'm far from the first to ask this question so hoping to crowdsource some expertise for what makes sense given my usage before I drop $3-5k.
Right now I'm riding an entry level 2017 Diverge which has served me well but I'm looking to upgrade (frame geo that fits me poorly, OK on road, only 35mm tires for gravel, only 2x9 gears, and single-sided disc brake annoying on Seattle hills--would prefer hydraulic). I've got a very leg-heavy body type (6'3" with 37" inseam from the ground & somewhat short arms), which seems to mesh with the current frame geo for Diverge and Roubaix--Specialized seems to be one of the few manufacturers that'd work well.
My usage is basically:

• 50-60% long commute on paved trail/road: 25 miles round trip, carrying laptop and clothes, currently using rear rack with panniers
• 25-30% 30-50 mile road rides
• 15-20% 30-50 mile packed gravel rides

I like the idea of being able to do more gravel rides and group road rides, though with two young kids it's unclear how realistic that is for the next few years.
Here's how I'm currently thinking about it:

• Roubaix: Way better on road, also better on moderate gravel with more tire clearance. Commuting though would be a bit of a pain unless I can get away with a frame bag and backpack for the laptop without killing my back or ending up in a pool of sweat in the summer (since Roubaix wouldn't support rear rack). This feels like a better complement to my current bike, which I'd use if I needed to haul more luggage. If I got really into gravel or single-track riding in the future, then I'd get a more specialized bike for that.
• Diverge: Probably a bit better on the road and commute (would put on rack for panniers), though I feel like I'd miss having a second front gear. Obviously way better and more flexible on anything offroad. Definitely more flexible in terms of what it can do vs. the Roubaix, though it'd be kinda "same but better" as my current bike, which leave the '17 Diverge only useful for biking around town.

Thoughts?

I love a lot of things about my partner. She's determined, strong, and yet still absolutely beautiful with some very cute quirks.
Yet we don't really line up with our interests very often. I'm really diverse in what I do, and I try and always pick up new interests. I snow board, skateboard, play volleyball in the summer, like going on geo cache hunts, play board games of all types, video games of all types, I've gone to a number of different physical classes (capoeira, parkour, HEMA, jujitsu) for varying amount of time, but the main thing my partner likes doing with me is either watching shows together (which is fine, I like shows too, though her favorites are reality shows which isn't super my bag because I hate watching people fight, but I think the competition ones are at least interesting), and watching me play long video game RPGs (again, fine, but I feel like that's kinda me just doing a lot and not a lot of us doing something together). She will also join I'm and play board games in a group, and ultimately, is kinda how we met in the first place.
She does reject invites to pretty much everything else since she is not a very active person and doesn't like co-operative or competitive experiences outside of board games, whereas I love competing and co-operating with friends, since I really enjoy seeing my friends succeed. I also love being with my friends and love organizing activities for us all to do together, though again, for the past 3 years I have to schedule that around my partner as she doesn't enjoy those types of activities. I've learned to live with that though, it's fine, it's been 3 years and I feel like I've learned to balance my friend's needs with hers as well.
Sex is pretty tough for us. It's pretty painful for her though we have been working around ways to try and improve it, it is a pretty rare occurrence. She's unfortunately have had some pretty bad partners, so the experience is generally unpleasant for her, which in turn, makes it hard for me to feel like it's something I should be desiring from her since it's so one-way. Makes it a pretty tough since prior to this relationship I had a number of intimate relationships with close friends, and it was such a normal thing for us all, and my current partner does put a restriction on me pursuing that kind of contact with my friends, aside from other men (I identify as pansexual).
Furthermore, there is a pretty wide financial gap between us. I'm currently trying to save up to buy a house, after working towards it for 10 years, but my partner has been struggling as an independent artist. She does great, very cute work, but I feel isn't making the best decisions. When we met she had about 10k in credit card debts, which I helped her payoff, and then got her a loc at the bank to help with the rest. She managed to pay me back and was doing fine for a bit, but I just recently found out that she had amassed a new debt of over 25k. This is after she promised me she would always pay off her credit cards, and never let them accrue interest, and if she was ever starting to slip she would tell me. Not only did she not do that, she also went and took out a loan with a ridiculous 36% interest that has been burying her deeper and deeper.
We also have some pretty bad fights, I'm very timid and am pretty terrified of getting yelled at, but she flies off the handle some times for reasons I don't fully understand, it's usually whenever I try to make suggestions to her or voice concerns about her habits, in which she will often yell at me telling me I'm inventing problems and adding to her mental load, or when I disagree with her on certain statements (it can even be as innocuous as a difference in opinion on a movie we watched, and she will just start getting aggressive and yelling). Sometimes when she's like this I'll avoid her and give her space, but at night she will confront me and want to talk about why I was avoiding her, which ends up leading to her getting angry at me again when I try to disengage. I try to tell her to please talk to me in a normal tone but she says she has every right to be loud and angry because that's who she is and I need to respect her emotions. I've never been in any kinda of arguments like the ones she pulls me into with any friends or past relationships, so it's just been kinda startling.
It also seems so unfair when I really do try my hardest to make life easier for her. I do a lot of driving for her, I take her out to dinner, I offer plenty of physical affection, I prepare little scavenger hunts and surprises that I know she likes, I buy fun little experiences that she keeps dropping hints that she would enjoy (mostly relaxing things like massages and pedicures), and when she's sick I drop everything and try to make sure she is comfortable and had everything she needs to get better. It just hurts to get yelled at when I feel like, even when I make mistakes (I'm pretty oblivious to cues and hints, but I do try my best at least) it's never something so serious that deserves being treated that way. I don't even expect to be reciprocated for my efforts, I know that's hard for her with all her stress and financial struggles, but I really just wish I was never yelled at any more, or at least give the same type of respect I give her. I've never raised my voice with her, or really anyone in my life other than my parents. Even when she says some really hurtful things, or sometimes just, really strange or insensitive things about myself or people we know.
I'm not sure if this is all normal since while I've had 6 other relationships, none had made it over a year, and since I was older, and since I had known my partner for 5 years before we started dating, I figured I'd really try to make this one work. But it's getting to the point where I'm starting to envy so many of my friends who seem to be so perfect with their partners, who seem to be going on new adventures almost every week, and are growing together, and pursuing their goals and helping eachother succeed.
I do love my partner, I do want to help her succeed, but I don't feel like this is a partnership, I'm so worried about how we just don't seem to mesh together with our passions are, and we just seem to keep hitting different setbacks. I'm terrified of breaking up with her, because I'm worried I'll never see her again and I just don't want that to happen. I like being around her, and I do like talking to her. I really loved being her friend, and I'm worried that by trying this relationship, my two options now are to lose that friend, or remain in this relationship which continues to be such an ongoing struggle. She often talks about marriages and how she imagines I would propose to her, but I just don't have that sort of confidence to believe that it could work.
The revelation that she had been hiding that growing debt from me when I could have immediately stepped in and help her may have been the final red flag that maybe this just wasn't meant to work. But I can't possibly imagine leaving her now without getting through this, and once we do, I don't know if I'd have the courage to leave her once things are going good.
Hell, I feel guilty even having these thoughts and writing all this out, since it seems so unfair to her. I think about her all the time, and having her near when she is in a good mood is absolutely so lovely. I really want to trust her again and just enjoy the times that we can be together and have things work, I'm just worried that I might be shooting myself in the foot when I'm already getting up there in years, and I may just end up perpetually stressed, or just simply alone in my 40s.
Has anyone else been in similar situations with their partner? Did you stay or leave? What made you stay? If you left, did you regret it? Did you stay friends? Did you find anyone else in your 30s?
I've pretty much regretted not trying hard enough in my previous relationships, or quitting when things just got to hard. I'm really trying with this one. I just don't know if it is a sisyphean effort or not.
Thanks for reading by the way, really~

I have a setup where there's a blueprint / static mesh's geo is driven by my current health. IE: As my health drops the little needle on an old school gauge drops.
I have the connection working and I wanted to smooth out the animationa bit and finterp or rinterp just get stuck at a certain value.
If I use a timeline to rotate the needle geo it works great but for some reason interpolating it breaks after the first 2 or three values.
I have attached a video of the asset and the rotation I need, second part of the vid is with finterp with 0 interp speed ( works but is sudden ). Third part shows if I set interp speed to say 2 it works until it reaches a value of 90 on rotation and just locks up. Notice the bottom left is the current player health as a debug and its lowering but the needle just glitches out and the values from my print just get stuck around 90 once interp speed is anything other than 0.
https://imgur.com/a/xeALeo3
I have tried rinterp, finterp - I just can't for the life of me figure out why interpolating works for the first three values than messes up and Im guessing its my delta time.
UPDATE ONE : Trying to stick to having the health float control the timelines playback as that works 100% of the time but just going to figure out how to finterp the health value before plugging that into the timeline time setting that's been remapped.
UPDATE TWO: Found this post ( https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/e/3/7/e37bb14a0d895efa8148e698710d15a27fb19e01.jpeg ) about finterp with a float and going to use this as a driver for my timeline after a remap. Not sure why the world delta is plugged into interp speed on this guys example but I'll try anything to to test.

Hi all, I'm newer to Unreal Engine. I am coming from a background of rigging in Maya and I'm trying to add Unreal to my tool kit for work and currently I'm trying to FBX Export from Maya a very simple mesh (It's literally just a cylinder) and a single joint chain to Maya. I've been having some errors along the way but I've gotten rid of all of them except for the one in the title, and none of the answers I've found through google have helped alleviate this issue. I currently have both the geo and the joint chain parented to the world so they are in the same hierarchy and I've also tried different FBX export year versions (2014-2020). Those the only real fixes I've found and neither work for me.

Hi!
How can I choose a section of this multi poly in QGIS? I already converted it to sahapefile, now i can push the edit button, but idk whats next.
Thx m
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