[Plugin] UV Toolkit
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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).
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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!!
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ok Thanks, I was just thinking about a quick shortcut to rotate a texture 90 degrees (no stretching.)
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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.
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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.
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I don't quite remember what I did. But what I do is somewhat special for quad-faces with textures stretched to fit.
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It works for square textures (where the image is square) but distorts rectangular ones.
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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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@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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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.
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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? -
@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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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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Only thing though, about which points should it rotate...?
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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.) -
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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