Rotate Materials - Building Plugin

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Howdy!

I created a free plugin to help builders streamline their workflow for realigning material directions on base parts. To manually achieve this, you have to resize and rotate the base parts, and this plugin lets you do it quickly on several parts at once with just a quick keybind!

Works with entire models and individual parts within models:

And it also works on parts besides Blocks!

How To Use

• Add Material Rotate to your toolbox from the Creator Store and add it to your studio plugins
• Activate the plugin in your plugin bar
• Select the desired part and press ‘R’/‘T’ to modify the materials orientation
• [Recommend] Setup keyboard shortcuts (below), so you can reorient materials without needing to activate the plugin in the toolbar - this also allows you to use normal mouse/selection functionality at all times

Keyboard Shortcuts

For the best workflow I recommend utilizing the ‘Customize Shortcuts’ in your studio settings:

File->Advanced->Customize Shortcuts->Search ‘Materials’ and add a keybind for both “Material Rotate” and “Material Tilt”.

I recommend “Shift+T” and “Shift+R” for your keybinds. Once installed and configured, you can trigger your custom shortcuts even if the plugin panel itself is closed or deselected. This is much more efficient as you have normal mouse and select functionality at all times.
If you don’t see ‘Material Tilt’ and ‘Material Rotate’ as options, verify that you have the plugin installed

How is this different from MaterialFlip?

• Works on all selected parts at once.
• Integrates with Studio shortcuts for instant access.
• Fixed bug on Cylinder rotations.

UPDATE v1.10 8/17/2025

You can now tilt the materials on Cylinders and Wedges!


This is done using a common builder trick of placing a block of the same material inside the cylinder/wedge with the material rotated in the desired direction and unioning the parts together. Because it becomes a unioned part, there is a limitation that the plugin no longer functions on the Union part; however, use Control+Z to quickly get back to the simple Base Part and make any other needed changes. This will speed up your workflow to quickly tilt cylinder/wedge materials instead of creating a union on each one!

Download

Add Material Rotate to your toolbox for free. If you have any suggestions or run into any issues, please let me know!

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[Tavikron (Octav)]

I guess you can’t rotate the material on the “special” side of WedgeParts

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Parts besides blocks are a bit trickier
This plugin doesn’t work on the corner wedges at all. And the “special” side to the wedge you’re referring to won’t exactly rotate, but the texture does change a bit. You could try doing the union trick that’s commonly used on cylinders.

[N_ckD]

Oh no!!!

[KevinImanoo]

Nuh uh because these models are private by default

[N_ckD]

The plugin is privated… lollll

[rogeryplayer23 (Erenator)]

dang looking good, this is going to be a huge help for builders!

[RejectPolarBear (Reject)]

Whoops! This is my first plugin, should be good now!

[Inciurse (mep)]

this is so useful actually thank you for this

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UPDATE v1.10

You can now tilt the materials on Cylinders and Wedges!


This is done using a common builder trick of placing a block of the same material inside the cylinder/wedge with the material rotated in the desired direction and unioning the parts together. Because it becomes a unioned part, there is a limitation that the plugin no longer functions on the Union part; however, use Control+Z to quickly get back to the simple Base Part and make any other needed changes. This will speed up your workflow to quickly tilt cylinder/wedge materials instead of creating a union on each one!

If you find any issues or have suggestions please let me know!