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Cool!

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Gildoran

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I was trying to make a fireplace but I couldn't find a set of irregular stones and bricks that went together, so I've added a set of textures... stone/floor/masonry_001, stone/floor/masonry_001_brick, and stone/floor/masonry_001_pillar. They all were created using the same method and source images, so their styles should be similar. The first is a bunch of irregular stones, the next is a brick texture, and the last is used for wrapping around blocks, so you can seamlessly texture the sides of arches and such.

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PS, perlin noise is great for generating normalmaps for rough stones!

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Cool. Those look pretty nice. :)

 

PS, perlin noise is great for generating normalmaps for rough stones!

Interesting. Good tip.

 

I assume you mean that you used Perlin noise to generate greyscale heightmaps and then converted those into normal maps?

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I'm looking forward to the displace modifier in the upcoming release of Blender. This should make it possible to use a noisy image of your choice to displace a grid mesh, which can then be manipulated in true 3D to create a normal map.

 

It will also allow adding noise to another mesh, such as a cave, which has long been a feature I have found missing from Blender.

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I just wanted to show off the latest set of textures I added, by posting a couple of screenshots of the fireplace/oven that I've been working on... (it's made entirely out of patches and brushes)

 

In front, it's a fireplace:

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From behind the bar, things can be heated over the fire:

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A couple of notes: In a production-quality map, the 4th mortar on the pillars wouldn't have the harsh transition. (for prototyping reasons, the pillars are made in stacks of 4 instead of being fit to the area, so every 4th mortar isn't smooth-shaded) Also, the shadows casted are much lower poly than the fireplace. (the pillar shadows are zig-zags instead of rounded bulges)

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