[Plugin] UV Toolkit

thomthom

are you thinking you may have come up with a way to do this?

Like this?

[EDIT] -- ouch.. and i just remembered if i want to render that sphere in indigo and have it turn out correctly, i have to triangulate the faces first. i'm wondering what would happen with these quads that aren't part of a sphere.

Could you triangulate after mapping?
I think I should be able to deal with triangulated quads - but it won't be the first to be implemented.

EscapeArtist

Oh man, this made texturing some of the stuff I do so much easier.

Thank you!

jeff hammond

@thomthom said:

Like this?

ha, yes.. exactly like that

@unknownuser said:

Could you triangulate after mapping?
I think I should be able to deal with triangulated quads - but it won't be the first to be implemented.

actually, yes.. i just tried it but i have to triangulate manually after mapping.. previously, i tried using the triangulateFaces ruby by TIG but it screws up the mapping if i do it afterwards.. i just assumed doing it manually would create the same problem but no, it works.

ygcl

@frederik said:

Thanks,
@unknownuser said:

Gaieus

Thom, great stuff so far! In my basilica, there was an arch in which there was literally hundreds of bricks. Even with the UV toolkit, it needed a lot of manual "quading" of the faces.
(and there were like 7 different sizes so you can imagine that day I was making them).

majid

maybe adding a "goust preview" of how plugin is going to UVmap (i.e. showing a sphere when choosing shepherical...etc) could improve the ui!!

thomthom

@majid said:

maybe adding a "goust preview" of how plugin is going to UVmap (i.e. showing a sphere when choosing shepherical...etc) could improve the ui!!

mm? I got no spherical mapping option.

As for the mapping types I do have, I don't have any API to draw texture previews.

Pixero

Just wanted to say thanks. I've had this plugin for a while but recently it saved me when doing some remapping of leaves on a highres tree.
Looking forward to the next version.

Jim

Is this correct, or am I using it wrong? I applied the material, selected the face, and selected "Rotate QF Clockwise 90" from the menu.

thomthom

I think it's doing it correct. As it rotates the orientation of the texture it stretch the texture to fit the quad-face.

For normal texture rotation you use the rotate methods from the native Position Texture tool.

Jim

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

thomthom

To add a hotkey to?

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

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.

Jim

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.

thomthom

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...

Jim

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

thomthom

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.

thomthom

@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.

Pixero

Here's my two requests for a great tool:

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

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

Edit: Fixed the image size.

Pixero

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?

thomthom

@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.