How can I change material directions?

[HubMong]

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1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
   I want to change the direction of the wood material 90 degrees.

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
   I searched in Dev Forum but couldn’t find the solution.

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I want to change the direction of the wood material 90 degrees on the handle part of the hammer cause it looks unnatural now.

[424s (Banks)]

Definitely consider checking out @stravant’s MaterialFlip Plugin to help with this directional issue. Not sure if it’s Meshpart supported but you can try it out.

MaterialFlip Plugin

I made yet another useful plugin. I’ve seen a couple of people doing this manually, so I thought I should make a plugin to automate it. Enter, MaterialFlip. Most easily described by a video: TL;DW: It keeps a part and all of it’s surface-types physically “in the same place” while resizing / rotating it to cycle the material pattern of the part material through the available “orientations”. EDIT: Accidentally the link:

[HubMong]

Thank you for your reply.
I tried the mentioned plug-in and the result is below.

Yes, the direction is correct,
but the form is tortured, which I don’t want.
It seems this plug-in is effective for simple forms only.

[uhSkittle (skit)]

At this point you should probably consider making your own material or texture to suit your mesh

[HubMong]

OK, I will try. Thank u for your advice anyway.

[Veldaren]

That looks like a MeshPart. Did you make it yourself and have a model available of it?
If not, make sure the handle’s orientation is 0,0,0, then right-click on it in the Explorer and hit “Export Selection” and import it into Blender.
Go into Edit Mode, rotate it into the same orientation as your hammer’s head (so 90 degrees), go back into Object Mode, hit Ctrl+A, select “Apply all transforms”, and then export it.
When you now import it into Roblox, the material should now be aligned how you want it to.

[HubMong]

Although I already fixed the problem by UV mapping, your method seems good.
Next time I will definitely try. Thank you so much for your useful info!

[msculenny]

You can just union it with another part which is facing the direction you want the material to face.