# Texture rotation?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/texture-rotation/22207>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/texture-rotation/22207 "2022-10-30T17:35:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Caius.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Caius.E](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Caius.E)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/texture-rotation/22207/1 "2022-10-30T17:35:02Z")

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I was wondering how soon we will be able to rotate textures in visualisation?  
I’m wanting to align wood grain textures with their respective components but I can’t figure out how.  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/stephen/32/16350_2.png) [@Stephen](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/texture-rotation/22207/2 "2022-10-30T17:54:33Z")

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Welcome to the group Caius.E. I think in another thread one of the Shapr staff members posted that the rotate feature was being worked on at the moment and probably would be ready very soon.

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**Author:** ![Loki](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/loki/32/18768_2.png) [@Loki](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Loki)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/texture-rotation/22207/3 "2022-11-06T13:43:44Z")

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Another one? Welcome @Caius.E

Don’t you think that rotation is fine but not enough?  
If you study work extremely closely, you’ll see that fiber is not only oriented in a particular way, but that it’s not linear.  
It’s perhaps the wrong place to write this, but I use vMaterials, which allow me to draw wood grain and fiber patterns with splines. It’s amazing how realistic it becomes.