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rotate point normals around tangents in vex

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pingo
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I know this has been asked before, but I simple can't get this to work correctly.

I got a curve with a lot of points. I put N and Tangentu on the points with a polyframe and in a Pointwrangle I have the following:

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float twist = chf('twist');

vector tnorm = normalize(@tangentu);

matrix3 m = ident();
rotate(m, twist, tnorm);

@N *= m;
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- twist is a float slider.

The Normals rotate, but on some weird axis. I obviously need them to rotate around Tangentu

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Aizatulin
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Hi,

you can use primuv to evaluate “tangentu” from first input.

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AndyW
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Here's another way, using edge_dir attribute from a point SOP

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pingo
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@moogtastic, thanks!

It wasn't even the assignment of tangents that was off. It was the syntax in my vex.

This worked:

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float twist = chf('twist');

matrix m = ident();

rotate(m, twist, v@tangentu);

@N *= m;
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endframe
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Hi,

I know this is a very old post, however I was wondering, with current setup, how would you drive rotation by an attribute such as Cd, P...

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