Rotating Nodal textures

**dpont** · 05-06-2020, 12:14 PM

I updated DP Kit 2018,
Several tool nodes were limited to Object or World coordinates Mapping due to a limitation with LW pre-2018,
I added UV Coordinates choice for applying effect with ObjectUV Mapping in the following tool nodes:
Move, Rotate, Twist, Mirror, Tile, Deformer, BlurFilter, Averaged, SplineMap, ScalarBump.

Denis.

**Dennik** · 05-06-2020, 01:08 PM

Hey Denis. Now that I see you here, I wanted to ask: the iteminfo node from dp kit, does not report any values on mouse over (when output monitoring is enabled) when it is set on "self". Is this something that can be fixed?

**Ma3rk** · 05-06-2020, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by dpont

I updated DP Kit 2018,
Several tool nodes were limited to Object or World coordinates Mapping due to a limitation with LW pre-2018,
I added UV Coordinates choice for applying effect with ObjectUV Mapping in the following tool nodes:
Move, Rotate, Twist, Mirror, Tile, Deformer, BlurFilter, Averaged, SplineMap, ScalarBump.

Denis.

Thanks Denis. I'll check them out later today.

**Ma3rk** · 05-07-2020, 12:52 AM

Finally figure out the issue. Seems I needed to update DP Filter as well. That gave me the inputs. And that did work but still no tiling control but maybe with a bit more experimentation.

Thanks Denis. Really appreciate this.

**dpont** · 05-07-2020, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by Dennik

... the iteminfo node from dp kit, does not report any values on mouse over (when output monitoring is enabled) when it is set on "self". Is this something that can be fixed?

May be, but not sure if the current item ID is returned in nodal preview context.

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Originally Posted by Ma3rk

... but still no tiling control....

With nodal input, but with panel?

Denis.

**peebeearr** · 11-18-2020, 10:46 PM

Hi Denis,

I was playing around with the UV rotate thing you built and noticed a few things:

- When using the Image Map node from DP Kit the U Tiles and V Tiles are set to integers. It would be handy to have them as scalars because of finetuning and values less than 1.
- I also noticed that the textures in the preview window appear darker than should be (Linear colour space?).
- Is it possible to have a Projection input added in the Image Map node? (Makes selecting a certain UV map and U/V Tiles/Offset easier with multiple nodes)
- I tried to use the Material input/output and rotate the whole material but couldn't get that to work --> It does not show the material at all in the renderer

And lastly, do you know why the (Standard LW) Image node can output texture maps all the way through to OpenGL and the Image Map node from DP Kit cannot? It would be handy if it could for quick previewing the texture in OpenGL. See also the thread I raised here: https://forums.newtek.com/showthread...with-ImageNode

**dpont** · 11-19-2020, 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by peebeearr

Hi Denis,

I was playing around with the UV rotate thing you built and noticed a few things:

- When using the Image Map node from DP Kit the U Tiles and V Tiles are set to integers. It would be handy to have them as scalars because of finetuning and values less than 1.
- I also noticed that the textures in the preview window appear darker than should be (Linear colour space?).
- Is it possible to have a Projection input added in the Image Map node? (Makes selecting a certain UV map and U/V Tiles/Offset easier with multiple nodes)
- I tried to use the Material input/output and rotate the whole material but couldn't get that to work --> It does not show the material at all in the renderer

And lastly, do you know why the (Standard LW) Image node can output texture maps all the way through to OpenGL and the Image Map node from DP Kit cannot? It would be handy if it could for quick previewing the texture in OpenGL. See also the thread I raised here: https://forums.newtek.com/showthread...with-ImageNode

The recent material input/output in Rotale Tool node was locked, this has been fixed.

About Image Map node, first and again it is not for replacing the native Image node,
it is for changing frame index on the fly in an image sequence, or image scanning,
not optimized yet for current image mapping, because also stats slown down things,
so no OpenGL material override and I'm not sure with Projection input.

Thanks for report,
Denis.

**peebeearr** · 11-19-2020, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by dpont

The recent material input/output in Rotale Tool node was locked, this has been fixed.

About Image Map node, first and again it is not for replacing the native Image node,
it is for changing frame index on the fly in an image sequence, or image scanning,
not optimized yet for current image mapping, because also stats slown down things,
so no OpenGL material override and I'm not sure with Projection input.

Thanks for report,
Denis.

Hi Denis,

Sorry, I misunderstood. In your documentation it says that it mimics LW Image node (with some extra time options) so that's why my comments.

Material input/output works like a charm now