Free bricks...

[Macker]

Hey chaps,

I am sure many of you are aware of the Brix plugin that surfaced a year or two ago, and a couple of other similar things also pop up from time to time, but there is a way to achieve the same result for free.



Bercon Tiles and Multitexture now work with eachother so that you can use Multitexture to load multiple/random brick bitmaps into the Bercon Tiles plugin that will position them.

Here's a set of bricks I shot a week or so ago, with bump & alpha masks:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...UVJOUxoNmxDMDA

I imagine the process to be fairly self explanatory, however if there is enough interest I can write a tutorial.

[MoonDoggie]

Thanks for sharing.

[cheerioboy]

thanks!

Bercon tiles drives me crazy with not being able to see in the viewport much of the tweaking I do. Lots of render tests. But it's a super robust setup.

[3LP]

I love bercon textures but it drives me crazy it crashes max nearly every-time I touch or dup it.

I wish someone with coding skills would be able to take it over and make it stable

Stan

[Macker]

Haven't had it crash for me (yet). I totally agree with the not being able to see it in the viewport though, really frustrating.

[piotrus3333]

those two are working nicely together for quite a while. never had any crashes with bercon. if you need something in viewport use additional separately mapped bitmap in mat matching bercon brick module.

[Vizioen]

I love bercon textures but it drives me crazy it crashes max nearly every-time I touch or dup it.

I wish someone with coding skills would be able to take it over and make it stable

Stan

Never had it crash, except for using variance in a composite but vlado fixed this and I told the guy from vizpark and he uses the updated version now too, so if you have walls & tiles, you shouldn't have any problems I think.

http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...using-variance

[Macker]

Will try and shoot some more when I get a moment. The time consuming bit is getting the brick masks right.

[peterguthrie]

Hey chaps,

I am sure many of you are aware of the Brix plugin that surfaced a year or two ago, and a couple of other similar things also pop up from time to time, but there is a way to achieve the same result for free.

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Bercon Tiles and Multitexture now work with eachother so that you can use Multitexture to load multiple/random brick bitmaps into the Bercon Tiles plugin that will position them.

Here's a set of bricks I shot a week or so ago, with bump & alpha masks:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5...UVJOUxoNmxDMDA

I imagine the process to be fairly self explanatory, however if there is enough interest I can write a tutorial.

a tutorial would be great!

[alexyork]

I second that. Results look great, would love a walkthrough.

[Macker]

Fair enough. Don't suppose any of you chaps could recommend a decent screen video capture software (preferably free)?

[Vizioen]

Camtasia studio, but it's not free. BTW what's the power you have over software like walls & tiles, brix, multitiles,... etc? Except for that it's free.

[Macker]

Generally the main render farms support Bercon Maps and Multitexture. Certainly Render Nation do and to my knowledge Rebus do too. And it's free.

[jacksc02]

Bricks always annoy the hell out of me!
Lately I have been using railclone to procedurally build my walls and then multitextures for texturing them.
Another plugin for bricks is Rayfire.
They have a bricks modifier now which is simply amazing. BIG time saver.

[Vizioen]

Yeah but I don't think the rayfire modifier is meant to be used for project with lots of brick walls. Besides that Walls&Tiles is also supported by Rebusfarm.