New Find: Cool brick texture maker
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I ran across this brick texture maker the other day. Just started using it and it seems really cool so far. It's a program from Acme brick company that's for architects w/ special attention given to renderers (or SU model builders).
http://www.brick.com/md/index.htm
Basically you download the (free) program and it'll let you pick from a very wide list of bricks (I think it's got some CMU blocks and such too) from 4 different manufacturers. You can also select from a wide variety of mortor colors. You select how big of a sample size you want (ie. how many bricks wide and high) and can select individual rows to be soldier course, change individual brick colors (to make a darker colored horizontal band for example), etc.
You can then save your sample as an image (I spit out a 25x25 brick sample and the resolution was 2688x1344 but you can up that by as much as 200% I think or reduce it). Plus it automatically spits out a bump map! I'm not sure that it bumps the bricks but it'll at least give you white bricks w/ black for the mortar areas.
I ran a quick rendering in maxwell and come up w/ the image below. I found a minor tiling issue (you'll see on both sides a mortar line that runs vertically from top to bottom). In fairness though I think that's intentional (ie. a control joint), which is pretty awesome and shouldn't be hard to get rid of if it's undesired.
-Brodie
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That has actualy been available for quite some time, but good find for those that did not know.
Scott
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Hrm...what other secrets are you hiding from me then?
-Brodie
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Hi,
This reminds me this:
http://www.3d-rekonstruktionen.de/bricksntiles/
Also free and easy to use
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Thank You!
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