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Is there a way to make the material follow of the spiral as it goes up the stairs? Presently, I can make it horizontal, vertical or any angle between the two, but not follow (like a UV mapping).

As a matter of expedition, I've been creating wood grains by having two materials, one for vertical grains and one for horizontal grains and then applying each to corresponding layers.Now, I have a need for a diagonal grain.  Rotating the bitmap in Photoshop and applying it to yet another material is less than satisfactory, since I have to use a larger x and y dimension for the bitmap, causing a rather ugly material.My questions is: Isn't there a field in the dialogs somewhere to specify a…See More

I do renders in nXt (all builds), save as .jpg, open in photoshop, copy the entire image to the clipboard and paste into a different photoshop document (.psd). In the render window and when opening the .jpg in a viewer or in photoshop, the color of the rendered image looks fine.  When I paste the clipboard into the other document, the color is obviously not in the same color space, since everything is far redder and more saturated. Does anyone know another way to get the contents of my render…See More

The install completes, but the Flamingo nXt menu does not appear and Flamingo nXt does not appear as an option in Render > Current Renderer. Flamingo nXt also does not appear in the Rhino 4.0/plugins folder. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing.  the install file is nXt10_WIP_x64_20110121.msi WindowsXP 64 Bit.See More