Brick Texture - How would you create this texture?

[Stan Zaslavsky]

Hi all,

 

just doing a job for a client who wants a very specific brick texture on the front.

 

i'm supposed to have two rows of rough textured brick and one row of smooth - see the image for the kind of bricks that he is after.

 

Which approach would you use for it?

 

your help is much appreciated in advance.

[beestee]

There are many ways this could be done. My top two choices would be using a VRayBlendMtl (Blend if you don't have VRay) or setting up Sub-Object IDs in the profiles for a sweep or loft.

Edited August 5, 2009 by beestee
Clarification

[Stan Zaslavsky]

thanks beestee for the advice - the loft or sweep sounds like a great suggestion. i've never used Blend before - does that allow controlled amounts - ie so i can get two rows of rough brick and one row of smooth brick?

 

cheers,

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I should be able to dig up my block materials if they would help.

[beestee]

i've never used Blend before - does that allow controlled amounts - ie so i can get two rows of rough brick and one row of smooth brick?

 

Basically yes, it will allow you to use a mask to define when 2 seperate materials would show up, and with a repeating pattern such as this it would be pretty simple to accomplish.

Edited August 6, 2009 by beestee

[Chad Warner]

You could also use a brickmapper program like the one on acmebrick.com (http://www.brick.com/md/index.htm) and set up one big bitmap with the different block types.

[Tommy L]

I would use displacement. The you dont have to model the bricks at all, everything will be done with mapping.

[fadi3d]

I'd say Multi subobject with Real world mapping will work just fine.