[Plugin] UV Toolkit

ygcl

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.

Pixero

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...

thomthom

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

Pixero

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.)