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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
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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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      • PixeroP Offline
        Pixero
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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.

        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‘

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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
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                          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.

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  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.

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                                    • PixeroP Offline
                                      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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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        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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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
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                                          @thomthom said:

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

                                          There's a 'Center of Gravity' script somewhere - 'centroid.rb' - by TBD that adds a cpoint at the CoG of a face.
                                          I can't find it so here it is againcentroid.rb

                                          TIG

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                                          • PixeroP Offline
                                            Pixero
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                                            See image in my updated post above.

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