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I'm trying to fill entities (polygons from 3 to x points) with a texture that I want to align with the 'general' orientation of each polygon, ie, I need a formula to assign to the Rotate field of the polygon style (red circle on the image).
I guess the function would have to determine global polygon orientation by reducing the polygon to its box and calculate the ration height/length.
Unfortunately, I'm not skilled enough with programming. How would you do that?
To have a polygon layer with a texture orientated according to the rotation of the polygon you can use this expression:
angle_at_vertex(shortest_line(centroid(oriented_bbox($geometry)), boundary(oriented_bbox($geometry))),0)
Add the expression in the Orientation variables of the fill as shown in the image
With this expression, the orientation of the pattern will be calculated according to the angle created by the intersection of the shortest line between the polygon centroid and his oriented bounding box and his bounding box perimeter.
