Please, give us drag/rotate/stretch handles for textures :)

Ok, I don't know how many times I'm working with a texture, and can't seem to get it quite right. After flipping it, rotating it, stretching it, etc, I don't remember which was is vertical or negative, positive/negative.

It's good that I can use the number boxes to describe with GREAT precision exactly how stretched, rotated or offset I want my texture. But I can't help but think how much easier it would be in many cases, if I could drag it with handles the same way that I can re-position, rotate and stretch a prim's shape.

Please, Lindens:

Implement a feature that when I use "Texture Select", it brings up rotate/drag/stretch handles on that texture. Let me use the same keyboard shortcuts as with the Position handles.


Please?

PleasepleasepleasePurtyplease?

GREAT IDEA! Give this man a cookie!

:gives Unhygienix a cookie:

Excellant idea!
==Chris

-munches cookie-


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Oh, and another cookie

I can't BELIEVE this idea hasn't been suggested before. GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!!!!!!!!!
I even broke my 3 ! limit!

Yes please! I'm not sure how it would work for stretching textures without ignoring tiling, but at the very least it would be great to be able to move the texture on the surface with the mouse.

Hmmm, this is a cool idea.

Question: could you describe in detail how it would work? For example, imagine it's stretched to twice normal scale, would you display the whole stretched texture or just the bit thats visible on the object? Where would you put the drag handles? If you then scale it a bit, what happens to the drag handles?

Azelda

Hmmm, I could be mistaken on how to work this, but I think that the Texture-Handling should work off the Texture Target which already comes up. Worst case scenario is that you're useing a texture which is much bigger than the prim face you're working on, and the texture is offset, so you can't see the target at all. I'd like to see a "phantom plane" show, when you go into Texture select, which shows the side of the full texture relative to the prim face you're working.


Think, a cube, and when you go in to Texture Select, a "phantom plane" shows the full size of the texture yo're working with.....drag and drop would be viea the target drawn in the center of the texture, and the lines that extend outward from it.

this is definitely the way to do it. it'll allow you to move the large texture around and get exactly the area you want over the prim face.

ditto on the whole great idea routine

that would be nifty

also some kind of texture alignment thing, so I don't have to get out my calculator when I am doing flooring... that somehow seemed to happen automatically last year when I was building a big ship, I could select a bunch of textures on the same plane and I think if I set the repeats per meter it tiled it perfectly, even though the prims were not the same size... but now either it's gone or I forgot how to do it.

I agree, better texture tools would rock.

I said everything I needed to say about it here....

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Not exactly the same but similar. I wholly endorse better texture tools, the ones we have now are bulky.

boy do I feel old...
While I know this is a great idea... I can think of a billion places this would be SO cool, make work exponentially faster make things look a million times better, its like... giving up a slide ruler.

I KNOW how the old system works, I kind of like it being arcane and bulk and difficult to use... ugh... I just know in 60 more years Im going to be the one saying "NO Im not giving up my old sub dermal neural interface, you kids dont know how easy you got it! my old implant has worked just fine for 50 years and Im not switchin'!"

So yes.. implement this idea, please.. so I can enjoy it and not feel old.

the sooner this is implimented the better as some of the prims once you deform them are near impossible to map textures onto properly

Totally excellent idea!

And yes, that's exactly how it should work!

No more guessing games, show us the full texture and show us the equivalent prim area being mapped onto it. While it's nice to generate an interesting artistic texturing by sheer fluke, I think most people would prefer to see what's going on rather more clearly.

I still think this idea is the epitome of Texture Heaven, so I am re-endorsing this idea.