Forum: Vue

Subject: Texture Orientation

ricki01 opened this issue on Dec 12, 2003 ยท 7 posts

ricki01 posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 10:19 PM

I as using the stock sand texture for a beach scene - however, the texture loads with the sand ridges going in the wrong direction. Wave action would make the ridges parallel to the beach but the texture load wrong. Little example pic posted Question; is there a way to turn the texture around 90 degrees so it will align with the shore?

ricki01 posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 10:21 PM

BTW I did try to rotate the terrain but ti no avail - same thing

kongorilla posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 11:25 PM

Here's two ways:

  1. Change the material from "World Standard" to "Object Standard" and then rotate your object.

or

  1. (see 2nd illus. for this one) Edit the bump and color functions (though on this sand material only bump is really important, I think) and click on "rotate" at the bottom. Change the z value to 90 degrees or whatever value you need.

kongorilla posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 11:26 PM

Technique #1

kongorilla posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 11:28 PM

Technique #2

kongorilla posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 11:31 PM

In technique 2, you have to rotate every function layer, by the way. steve (kongorilla)

Richard T posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 11:42 PM

I am no expert, however in material editor/effects/global transformation/rotation are sliders to rotate the texture in the x,y,z dimension. This gives some control over texture orientation.