Tuesday, October 24, 2006

www.brick.com

Yes, this is the site of Acme brick company, which naturally sells bricks. Not too exciting at all, but also on the site is an architectural tool which allows you to choose the exact brick, brick laying style and even cement colour. The final image can be saved in a number of image formats making it the greatest tool I have come across for generating realistic brick textures.

A fantastic tool for anyone doing 3D architectural models. For more details see the latest blenderart magazine (http://www.blenderart.org/).

Cons:
  • Textures are non-repeating - however you can make the textures really large.

  • Bandwidth heavy - downloads textures from the net as you need them, so you will need a fairly good connection

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