topic Re: Rotate Material settings in Visualization

Rotate Material settings

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:54:12 GMT

From an earlier post by Dwight I remember that to rotate a material in the LWRE you have to go to activate T Reflect to be yes.

But I seem to be missing something as it doesn't work for me. Can anyone spot what I forgotten to do or click?

tia

Re: Rotate Material settings

Dwight — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:34:20 GMT

Bug fixed in 10. What version you in?

Re: Rotate Material settings

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:39:33 GMT

Latest version ie AC 10.0 (1183 Int Mac Full) and as checked this morning

Is this a difference between the USA version sorry the Canadian version and the European version maybe?

Re: Rotate Material settings

Dwight — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:47:52 GMT

See if angle = 180 helps.

Re: Rotate Material settings

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:56:22 GMT

Dwight wrote:
See if angle = 180 helps.

nope that didn't work. I will try rotating it in Photoshop and see if that will get around the problem.

Re: Rotate Material settings

Barry Kelly — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:56:07 GMT

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Dwight wrote:
See if angle = 180 helps.
nope that didn't work. I will try rotating it in Photoshop and see if that will get around the problem.

Angle 90° perhaps?
Wouldn't 180° flip the texture completely upside down?
Barry.

Re: Rotate Material settings

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:24:28 GMT

Barry wrote:
Angle 90° perhaps?
Wouldn't 180° flip the texture completely upside down?
Barry.

That's where I started as you can see in the settings screenshot above. Pretty much any angle you set it to the texture doesn't budge an inch

Re: Rotate Material settings

Barry Kelly — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:06:50 GMT

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Barry wrote:
Angle 90° perhaps?
Wouldn't 180° flip the texture completely upside down?
Barry.
That's where I started as you can see in the settings screenshot above. Pretty much any angle you set it to the texture doesn't budge an inch

The angle for your internal engine is 90° and appears to have rotated the texture correctly.

The angle in your lightworks engine is 0° which could be why it is still vertical.
Did you try setting that one to 90°?

I haven't used the lightworks materials yet so maybe I don't know what I am talking about - just looking at the (I think) obvious.

Barry.

Re: Rotate Material settings

Anonymous — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:11:01 GMT

I might not understand what do you need but why to change texture direction in Lightworks? Wouldn't be more convenient to set the same texture direction for Internal/OpenGL/Lightworks same time?

1. Turn off "Surface" in Internal engine alpha channel texture settings. This might look irrelevant but somehow can mess with Lightworks settings. Never use "random origin" in the same window - this one is real trouble maker.
2. Now match Lightworks settings with Internal and tweak some more to get what you want.
3. Now for the tigr's tip of the week - copy the material and and name it for example Wood_Prodema_V, where "V" is for vertical and "H" - horizontal. Keep exactly the same settings just rotate source texture by 90deg. I do this with every material that has visible direction like wood, siding, decks. If one doesn't fit change for another and it will save you lots of time trying to align texture to some mean objects.

HTH