topic Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only in Modeling

Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:47:28 GMT

Hi, I am having problem trying to display my brick on edge window sill textures. I can use a brick surface texture that has no mortar joints in it but it’s not the color that I want to display.

I am using the aged natural brick texture for the walls and they display correctly. When I use that particular texture for brick on edge window sills, I get the mortar joints showing horizontally that I do not want to show. I am only using a single length brick so I don’t need to show horizontal mortar joints only vertical ones.

How can I edit the aged natural brick texture so that it becomes a surface only with no mortar joints ? Is that possible or do I need to find another aged natural surface brick texture with no mortar joints in it ? What are others doling to solve this problem ?

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

aarkell — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:24:45 GMT

Can you provide some screenshots for reference?

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 04:17:16 GMT

Yes, this shows what I am describing above as a reference.

Edit: (Image removed)

Notice the contrast between the red brick sill and aged natural sill ? The red brick sill surface texture has no mortar joints in it so it displays correctly with an added mortar joint texture set to a light concrete texture.

If I could just get a texture of an aged natural brick surface with no mortar joints in it that would do the trick. I will keep hunting for an image of one, if I can’t find it how would I zoom into my existing brick texture to just show the surface of a single brick only ?

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

Lingwisyer — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:50:39 GMT

If you do not mind each aged brick looking identical, you could just do a simple square crop of your texture to isolate a single brick. If the mortar colour is uniform, you could alternatively use a rough mask and offset your alternate courses to create a stacked / soldier bond.

Hm... The image used for Brick Aged 1 GS is tiny...

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:26:42 GMT

Is there an aged stack bond brick material in the surface catalogues?

Otherwise you have to use what you have now or edit an aged brick texture image file in something like PhotoShop to create the stack bond image with no vertical mortar joints.

Barry.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:29:21 GMT

Thanks @Lingwisyer, yes I just want to use the aged natural above shown on the wall as well.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:32:25 GMT

Thanks @Barry Kelly, No stack bond for aged natural in the catalogue. That's what I will have to do by the looks ?

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:44:28 GMT

I know it is technically not correct, but I just use the same material as the wall.

Otherwise, yes, you will have to create one.

Barry.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:45:05 GMT

I found a free photo editing app on the App Store site but it would only let me crop down to 200% only. I do have photo shop somewhere on my other computer to edit the image, if I wanted a purely surface brick texture.

I think I am happy to just use that same texture on the sills but it needs to be rotated 90 degrees to work. I just duplicated the texture and called it brick X rotated etc.

I found some nice old brick textures for free on the SketchUp Texture website. You just need to register and create an account to download them.

Thank you very much to SketchUp Trimble for providing this service.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:53:24 GMT

That’s very cool @Lingwisyer, I wouldn’t know how to start with an Archimaster technique like the one you just described above.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:35:28 GMT

Not sure if this is of any use.

It isn't quite the same as the aged brickwork, but it is a variegated darker brick in stack-bond.

Something I made for the same purpose.

I left the mortar joint at the end of the brick, just so you can't have an impossible long brick.

This images is designed to be 1029mm x 240mm.

Barry.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:44:25 GMT

Thanks @Barry Kelly, that might come in handy.

I had a search online at PGH bricks and downloaded a full catalog of 3D brick walls made in an older version of Archicad. Was also free and I opened it up in AC27 and it also had stack bond walls in them too. I got the catalog for QLD but there are more for the other states as well. An excellent resource for anyone who is interested.

Here is the link.

https://www.pghbricks.com.au/product-info/bim-downloads/archicad

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:54:47 GMT

Thanks for the link.

Barry.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

ESK — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:12:46 GMT

Wienerberger is a major European producer and their texture generator is very usefull:

https://www.egernsund.com/vaerktojer-service/visualisering/murdesigner.html

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:00:13 GMT

Thank you @ESK, that’s a great resource.

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

aarkell — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:26:45 GMT

Another good texture resource is the Textures website (formerly cgtextures). I used to to use them quite a bit as you can download a couple of free textures per day with a free account. It's been awhile though, so not sure if that is still but maybe you could find something useful there as well.

https://www.textures.com/

Re: Brick on edge window sill texture displaying mortar joints in one direction only

mthd — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:53:02 GMT

Hi all, I was able to find another old brick texture from SU club website that had a soldiers course pattern at the bottom of it. I edited it in a free Mac photo editing app and used it instead. Turned out ok.

Thank for the tips above.

Extra Info: I just cropped a picture of the “Aged Natural” brick surface in AC down to a single brick with mortar on one side. Worked ok but you need to have a variation of bricks to make it look more realistic. If the aged natural brick in AC came with a stack bond image it would work correctly.