phionix - sorry I have no idea what is happening to your morphs. I haven't any expertise with that stuff.

However, I did mysteriously "remember" how to rotate a tile pattern 45 degrees. You need to use the U and V nodes, connected as pictured above. Other rotations are possible, as well as non-linear scaling and shearing, and a host of other interesting variations, but I find I still forgot those. :)

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