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    • J Offline
      Jim
      last edited by

      Ok Thanks, I was just thinking about a quick shortcut to rotate a texture 90 degrees (no stretching.)

      Hi

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        To add a hotkey to?

        Since SU already has a rotate method I haven't made one myself.
        uvrotate.PNG

        But you can't assign a hotkey to it. That is one reason why I have considered recreating my own function. But it haven't been high up on the list.

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        • J Offline
          Jim
          last edited by

          Looking at your UV Tools, you are shifting the positions of points in 2 arrays. Is it as simple using a rotation on the arrays (around face.normal at face.bounds.center, maybe) instead of shifting? I'll try that.

          Hi

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            I don't quite remember what I did. But what I do is somewhat special for quad-faces with textures stretched to fit.
            Think you need some different handling for a general rotate method...

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            • J Offline
              Jim
              last edited by

              It works for square textures (where the image is square) but distorts rectangular ones.

              Hi

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                I think what you need to do is sample four points in a quadratic formation of the face's plane and then shift the 3Dpoints.

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @pixero said:

                  First, an option to keep the scale of a texture when rotating.

                  That's a mighty small image there... can't see much what's going on.

                  The rotate feature is meant for textures stretched to fit quad-faces. Special purpose rotate. SU already got rotate methods built in - When you activate SU's texture gizmo - you have a Rotate sub-menu.

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                  • PixeroP Offline
                    Pixero
                    last edited by

                    Here's my two requests for a great tool:

                    First, an option to keep the scale of a texture when rotating.

                    http://imagecloset.com/28/a429772e52af5cc3266b8d5eb74ce6f3/UVrotate.jpg

                    Second, add it to the right click menu for easier access.

                    Edit: Fixed the image size. 😒

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                    • PixeroP Offline
                      Pixero
                      last edited by

                      Still its great to be able to select a bunch of faces and rotate at the same time.
                      You cant do that with SU's build in tools can you?

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @pixero said:

                        Still its great to be able to select a bunch of faces and rotate at the same time.
                        You cant do that with SU's build in tools can you?

                        No you can't. Good point. I could add that feature. 👍

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                        • PixeroP Offline
                          Pixero
                          last edited by

                          I'm using it to rotate the texture on leaves on trees so doing it manually isn't an option. 😉

                          And don't forget the right click menu...

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            Only thing though, about which points should it rotate...?

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                            • PixeroP Offline
                              Pixero
                              last edited by

                              Can't you just swap the UV "scale"?
                              I mean like it is now but with an option to keep the scale on the X and Y axis.
                              (Rotating the points so that Points A,B,C,D would be D,A,B,C or something like that.)

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                There is no such fixed points. The one for the quad-faces works like that because you can use the four vertices of the face. But you can't do that when you have differently shaped faces and/or want to preserve scale.

                                With SU, you have to generate the set of points yourself and query the face. So when rotating, I need one anchor point.

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  hm... or maybe it won't be a problem.... hmm

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                                  • PixeroP Offline
                                    Pixero
                                    last edited by

                                    Ok, what would you suggest.
                                    Center of face? Or a window where you can choose like in Profile Builder?

                                    http://i.imagehost.org/0489/menu.jpg

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      centerofface.png
                                      That's the thing: what would you determine as centre of face for something like this? (or top,left,right,etc...)

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                                      • PixeroP Offline
                                        Pixero
                                        last edited by

                                        Center of bounding box maybe?

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                                          Gaieus
                                          last edited by

                                          @thomthom said:

                                          [attachment=0:3sro2dfg]<!-- ia0 -->centerofface.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3sro2dfg]
                                          That's the thing: what would you determine as centre of face for something like this? (or top,left,right,etc...)

                                          What kind of a quad is that, Thom?
                                          😲

                                          Gai...

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                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            😄 The exotic kind. 😉

                                            My point was - that when you don't deal with regular quad-faces - it's much harder to predict desired result.

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