How do you Rotate the Texture Environment

Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:36 am

I am using the Octane for Maya plugin and I'm working well with it so far, but I have a question.

How do you rotate the Texture environment? So I am using an image to illuminate my scene. I order to do this of course I clicked the "Create Octane Sun/Sky Environment Node" button in the OctaneRender tab in my Maya Shelf. I go the the attributes and select "Texture environment" from the pull down menu next to "Type" and this creates the circumstance where I can now apply the image. The only problem I have now is that I can't rotate the image to adjust how the image lighting is falling on the scene. What am I missing?

Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:50 am

You need to rotate it here.

Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:14 pm

I did try to input a number in both of those fields and the number will not be accepted higher than 1. In fact, whatever number I input, the number reverts to 1. For example, if I input 20 into either field, after pressing return, it switches to the value of 1. Do I have to unlock this somehow?

I should note that I am using the "OctaneRender for Maya v1.0 RC3c beta.exe" file from the download page not the "OctaneRender for Maya v1.02b beta.exe" from the Forums page. Might this be the problem? The second one should be the most up to date correct?

Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:59 pm

Doodle_Monkey wrote:I did try to input a number in both of those fields and the number will not be accepted higher than 1. In fact, whatever number I input, the number reverts to 1. For example, if I input 20 into either field, after pressing return, it switches to the value of 1. Do I have to unlock this somehow?

I should note that I am using the "OctaneRender for Maya v1.0 RC3c beta.exe" file from the download page not the "OctaneRender for Maya v1.02b beta.exe" from the Forums page. Might this be the problem? The second one should be the most up to date correct?

The values are normalized to 1 so they are not degrees of rotation. ie. 0.2 will give you 20% of a full 360 degree rotation.

T.

Wed Jan 23, 2013 10:09 pm

Yep, applied what you said and that worked of course. It's weird because in my mind it seems logical to go by degrees or whole numbers. The scales used by some of the dialogue boxes are so foreign to me coming from Mental Ray. Oh well, no skin of my nose. It works and that's all that matters. Thanks a bunch!