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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.

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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          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. πŸ˜’

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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. πŸ‘

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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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. πŸ˜‰

                  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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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          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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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  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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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    πŸ˜„ The exotic kind. πŸ˜‰

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

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      The thing is - would picking the "centre" (however it's defined) be any different, as just picking the first vertex I can get? At all seem rather arbitrary in terms of the result.

                                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                        thomthom
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                                        @pixero said:

                                        Would it be possible to have an option for it to automagicly recognise the lenght direction based on witch side is longest on a quad and rotate it to match that.
                                        Like if I want to rotate some UVs on a branch to line up the texture with the trees branches length direction. Would be cool.
                                        Am I making myself clear? πŸ˜•

                                        Are we talking about rotating on quads strictly? I was under the impression this would be a general purpose rotation.

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                          Pixero
                                          last edited by

                                          Would it be possible to have an option for it to automagicly recognise the lenght direction based on witch side is longest on a quad and rotate it to match that.
                                          Like if I want to rotate some UVs on a branch to line up the texture with the trees branches length direction. Would be cool.
                                          Am I making myself clear? πŸ˜•


                                          dir.jpg

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                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @pixero said:

                                            Would it be possible to have an option for it to automagicly recognise the lenght direction based on witch side is longest on a quad and rotate it to match that.
                                            Like if I want to rotate some UVs on a branch to line up the texture with the trees branches length direction. Would be cool.
                                            Am I making myself clear? πŸ˜•

                                            Can you show a little screenshot of your starting point and your desired result?

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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