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

mthd
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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 ?

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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.

 

BarryKelly_0-1712817170868.jpeg

 

Barry.

 


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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

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for the link.

 

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

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

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

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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/

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mthd
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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.

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