Making a stone "dry wall"

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Hi guys,
I need to make something like this

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Similar, our walls will have some mortar.

I tried with stones that had flattened tops and multiscatter. It was ok but I always had stones sticking out where horizontal and verticals meet. Client didn’t like that.
I guess the other way would be with texture, but since I need it to be rough I need to use displacement. The problem is that my best stone textures are from arroway, and as we discussed a while back in my thread, their bump maps can’t really be used as displacement maps.

So any suggestions for pro stone textures with good displacement maps?

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You can try with railclone…
http://docs.itoosoft.com/m/view-rendered-page.action?abstractPageId=19726520
Rule 10 - Disguise joints with interlocking geometry

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Interesting option Recon…will see if I’ll use that.

Also paolo, that looks like a great and powerful plug in. I feel it’s complicated, but I should try that too.

thx guys

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Check with Bobby, he had to do something similar not too long ago

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Which Bobby? Bobby revolver?

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Bobby Parker (Glorybound)

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You can try rayfire bricks methid too i think its more accurate to create semaless wall.

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I purchased a stone wall from 3dsky, which is what I think you are talking about.

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Rayfire looks awesome, too bad they don’t sell just that one modifier.
Glory, I already checked 3dsky but I haven’t found a good enough texture with a map for displacement.

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Maybe check this: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/stone-placement-tools

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grrr…that one looks great but it doesn’t work and I see other people complain it won’t install for them either.

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Guys from rayfire just gave me an offer to buy only the brick modifier :slight_smile: yay! So I guess I’ll use that

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That’s great, how much? And don’t you need the asperity modifier as well? Actually this plugin is a better (although paying) alternative for floorgenerator, albeit that most of us won’t need the physics. They should release a version that bundles the fragmentation modifiers alone without the demolition system.

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It wasn’t a texture I bought, it was a modeled wall.[quote=“RockinAkin, post:8, topic:49321, username:RockinAkin”]
Rayfire looks awesome, too bad they don’t sell just that one modifier.
Glory, I already checked 3dsky but I haven’t found a good enough texture with a map for displacement.
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Almost perfect!

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Yeah, I saw those stone wall models, pretty good, I wasn’t sure if tiling will be noticeable.

In their tutorial they use asperity too, but I’m doing it without. They offered it to me for $60.

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So here are a couple of tests with only bricks, no asperity modifier.

This is only bricks and vraydisplacement.

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And this is my simulation of asperity. I added subdivs, meshsmooth, and then noise. Also different texture plus vraydisplacement. (forgot the roof on these :))

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It’s pretty good for itself, but too busy for these renders, so next I’ll use more uniform texture, and less broken stones.