DeleD Community Edition

[Jeroen]

DeleD 0.86 and above supports a number of UV manipulation functions. You'll find them when selecting Face mode. To use them, select the object in Object mode, then select the face in Face mode. Remember to set the autoUV property of the object to false, otherwise DeleD will calculate its own UV coords after you manipulated the UV's yourself!

Available functions:

- move: moves the texture on the selected face.
- scale: scales the texture on the selected face.
- flip: flips the textures; usefull for textures containing text etc.
- cycle: cycles the UV's amongst the vertices; this is a form of rotating the UV's on the selected face

Editing individual UV coordinates isn't possible yet but will be implemented in future versions of DeleD.

[svs]

how i change auto uv property?
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[Jeroen]

[dirkk]

wow, you posted this right before I was going to ask it, thanks.

In fact I do like the Auto UV functionality. The only issue I have with it is that there seems to be no 'overall scale' factor.

In the experiments I have done I still couldn't decide the scale of the level (is the standard wall height rather 32 or 128?). But since the Auto UV function has one fixed scale there is no choice here.

So I wonder if it would be possible to implement an overall scaling of Auto UV in the main properties dialog?

[svs]

how do i use scale in face mode. i have got flip to work fine but nothing else works.
is there a trick to it?
thanks
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[Jeroen]

Set AutoUV to false (as you should always do when working with Face commands), select your face by using shift+left mousebutton, select scale and click & drag on the 2D views. That works when moving and scaling. Holding down CTRL will make DeleD scale by ratio (u,v scaled by the same amount).

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[svs]

i have try doing the scaling but all it does is move the object to the side a little
the auto uv is false, but it don't scale the texture on the slected face.
is it ment to make the texure larger or smaller or both or somthing else.
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[svs]

ok sorry got it to work
it was that i had selected i face under the face i wanted.
damn the small and stupid things that can happen.
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[dirkk]

By overall scaling (i guess it's the wrong expression then) I meant the following: say you have your grid set to 256 ('6') then you pull up a box (all sizes 128) over four quadrants in the top view. So looking at the front of the cube you see two tiles of the floor texture, which is exactly what I expected because you see a 128x128 texture twice on a 256 front. What I meant with 'overall scale' was a parametes that multiplies the uv coordinates for all objects (or even for every single object? then this would go into the object inspector), so that in the example the texture repeats 4 times or 8 or just once.

This way Auto UV would still work exactly as it is (which I like!) still I could scale the uv coordinates on a global range.

I hope I put it right this time.

[Jeroen]

I see what you mean now dirkk, it's like having u,v offset and scale values per object. I like the idea of having this stuff too so I'll get to that when I start working on more advanced UV mapping. Thanks for the suggestion.