Rotating smart materials

[woodrodius]

Hi, I'm curious as to how one rotates a procedural smart material within painter. For example, if I'm working on plank floor texture and a smart material that I apply has wood grain running perpendicular to the planks, is there not a way to rotate the smart material projection without actually manipulating the UV's? UV rotation doesn't seem to do anything, I tried setting 90 degree UV rotation on all the smart material's individual layers to no avail. Thanks!

[Jeremie Noguer]

Rotating the corresponding layers inside the smart material should do the trick unless there are also some fill effects on layers and masks that need some rotating too.

[Epithumia]

I made this filter, attached below, to scale and rotate smart materials.  It helps, until they get round to building the feature in.

Epi

[bytefactory3d]

I agree it is a hell of a lot of work to figure out all UVs that need to be rotated in complex materials. Always takes me like a quarter of an hour, often I realize afterwards that this material is not exactly what I needed and I start all over again with another material...

Isn't it possible to have a 'rotate orientation' dial in the material properties which can trigger all related components which need to be rotated?

And then, the same applies for SCALING, too.

@Epithumia
thank you very much for the transform filter. Unfortunately I am not able to try it right now, because I have currently an issue with Supstance Painter, it crashes without further notice after a given amount of time running (2 and half minutes, to be precise) and I beg someone from Allegorithmic can assist me figuring out where the bug is...

[pacsuta.david]

Agreed that this should be a default feature

[kinggambitben]

Not to belabor this issue but is this still not a default feature?

If I wanted 2 folders for vertical/horizontal grains of a complex wood material, I'd have to manually rotate 10+ layers 90-degrees? If I wanted to make edits, I'd have to re-rotate all the layers again, no?

[Jeremie Noguer]

You can drop a Transformation filter from the shelf to the top of your folder in the stack, the transformation will be applied to the full content of the folder.

[kinggambitben]

ohhhh I see! Thanks for bearing with the noobs out there like me!

I'm sure there's a reason, but intuitively I just thought that I could right-click on a folder, similar to layers, to get the filter->transform.

Passthrough makes so much more sense now.