Skewing textures

[fudgonaut]

I open maps in UEd to see if I can pick up useful techniques or inpiration.

I happened to look at DM-FoT-Metallicide and noticed something interesting. Here's one of the textures:

eX_trim_simple03_d.png (13.8 KiB) Viewed 620 times

Here's that texture on the ramp trim. The texture's skewed. Not rotated, skewed

I didn't know this was possible. After a little searching I found this tutorial on unrealsp.org. Pretty neat

Hopefully other mappers will find this useful too

[Barbie]

Very eye candy.

[papercoffee]

We had this discussion many years ago ...it is possible ...but the tutorials for that are somehow incomplete.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4446&p=46401&hilit=skew#p46401

[sektor2111]

Yep... I did something like this in a random edit...

To me it looks more realistic this way.

[fudgonaut]

We had this discussion many years ago ...it is possible ...but the tutorials for that are somehow incomplete.
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4446&p=46401&hilit=skew#p46401

I haven't played around too much yet, and the tutorial on unrealsp is missing screenshots, but using poly texscale UU=1 VV=1 VU= in the console definitely works. It's probably just a matter of practicing with it, to learn any nuances/iidiosyncracies.

Here's a related quetion:

Is there a console command for rotating a texture? The rotate texture tool can be imprecise. Being able to assign a texture a specific angle on a poly would be useful in some cases.

[Buggie]

[fudgonaut]

I was overlooking it this entire time

Maybe I should change my forum avatar to

[sektor2111]

FreeRotate.PNG (24.02 KiB) Viewed 499 times

[fudgonaut]

The Texture Rotate tool doesn't always work well for pieces of trim that are at an angle -- particularly longer prices of trim.

Being able to enter precise angles using Custom Rotation in the Surface Properties interface should prove useful in those cases.

I still can't believe I missed it. I've looked at the Surface Properties interface thousands of times, and I just never noticed it.

[papercoffee]

I still can't believe I missed it. I've looked at the Surface Properties interface thousands of times, and I just never noticed it.

in the old Editor?

[fudgonaut]

in the old Editor?

I've only really been using the editor a lot since UEd 2.2

[papercoffee]

I was wondering... you can't miss that setting in UEd2.0 because it doesn't exist there