Brick Textures...

[St Cana's]

Hi Guys

Where do you get your brick and roof tile textures from? I know of Arroway and they have some really nice stuff there but are there any other comparable resources that you can recommend?

Cheers
Karl

[Lukasz Brzozowski]

Maybe you would find something useful here:
http://www.cgtextures.com/textures.php?t=browse&q=0

cheers
Lukasz

[elzar]

http://www.santanselmo.com/librerie_textures.html

[STRAT]

for bricks there's no other better solution than online masonry designers.

[ichi.one]

for bricks there's no other better solution than online masonry designers.

sorry but what's "masonry designers"

[ichi.one]

Hey Strat, i see they made you Mod !
you've put up so many tutorials they had to made you a mod :lol:

[STRAT]

Hi mate :)

Beldon are typical of an online masonry designer -

http://www.beldenbrick.com/

basically, you donwload and install the free interface, and you can make huge detailed brick maps for free. totally realistic. i'd not be without mine.

[Neil V]

Dammit. That brick designer is Windows only..... Could have really used that.

[St Cana's]

Bootcamp is your friend!

Thanks for the replies folks.

Cheers
Karl

[Neil V]

Bootcamp scares me! It's still on in Beta isn't it? Never liked installing pre-release software, especially anything to do with your system. Or am I wrong about it being in Beta?

[St Cana's]

Not sure if it's still Beta or not but it certainly works a charm. I really don't like Windows at all but for things like this it an excellent option to have on standby.

Cheers
Karl

[Neil V]

Great. Thanks Lesia44. I don't like Windows either but you can't ignore the wealth of extra options BootCamp opens up. I'll give it a go. Thanks.

[STRAT]

i use bootcamp 24/7 on a professional bases. i'd be lost without it :)

i love the hardware and rock solid rendering capabilities of my intel mac, but i'm seriously not a fan of the mac O.S. I actually love the Windows system. so i use that through bootcamp. best of both worlds.

Also, when the next version of vray is released, it'll also be in a 64 bit version, that means only Windows users will have access to it. again, bootcamp is my solution :)

[celfcreative]

Instead of Boot Camp (which is a pain to have to restart to use, then restart again to get back to the Mac), try VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop.

I use VMWare myself, it installs like any other OSX program so not affecting your system, and runs Windows in a virtual environment - it behaves like a Mac application. It can also 'wrap' Windows applications so that they can be run as Mac apps without even starting a Windows environment. Its really fast, it can be opened and closed in seconds, and you can even drag files from your Mac to the Windows desktop and back again. Obviously you still need a valid Windows install. Here is a pic of it doing some Polytrans conversions -

http://217.36.202.218/vray/vmware.jpg

(PS - I'm no VMWare salesman I just think this kit is genius!)

[Neil V]

i'm seriously not a fan of the mac O.S. I actually love the Windows system.

Is that a joke Strat? You actually prefer the Windows OS over OSX? I'm not being awkward I just find that incredible to say the least. Windows to me feels like its been put together by a group of accountants and teachers with one of their 8 year old pupils in charge of the design.

Anyway, I'll leave my opinion here. Can't stand platform wars (although I used to enjoy them).

VMWare looks cool. Now, where's my credit card.....

[Ernest Burden]

Hi Guys

Where do you get your brick and roof tile textures from?

I almost always use the C4D brick shader for brick, stone, wood plank floors.

I posted these images to illustrate an issue with vray, but they show good procedural bricks. The problem concerns how a bump lines up with its material. There is a workaround and it will probably be fixed (let's hope) in the next release.


http://oreally.com/temp2/BRICKBMP-vray-01.jpg
http://oreally.com/temp2/BRICKBMP-vray-02.jpg

You have control over color, grout, etc. It works well and doesn't show a tiling repeat. I use the brick shader so much I cannot wait until we have nodal materials so one shader can be wired into a number of slots. For example, the brick pattern controls bump and reflection (for a glazed brick) so its a pain to make changes with multiple copies of a shader buried deep in material channels.

[STRAT]

Is that a joke Strat? You actually prefer the Windows OS over OSX? I'm not being awkward I just find that incredible to say the least. Windows to me feels like its been put together by a group of accountants and teachers with one of their 8 year old pupils in charge of the design.



i'm deadly serious. and why not? it's personal opinion. i've used it for about 15-20 years.
I've only used mac o.s. for a year or so and, if i'm honest, i hate it. yes, compared to Windows it's stability is not even in question, but for me as a user? i've got not much love for it.

why would you mock me for liking windows better? it's an opinion at the end of the day. i'm not getting into a platform war of any kind, just standing up for myself.
i'm not saying one is better than the next for one minute, i'm just saying i much prefer windows personally.

[Neil V]

Strat I wasn't mocking you. Calm down. It is personal choice of course. You're similar to me because I've used MacOS for about 15 years, whereas I've only used Windows for 18 months or so - so I suppose it's what you're used to and how easily you can navigate around.

When I said "Is that a joke?" I was actually pulling your leg. I didn't intend it to come across as mocking you at all. Use what you like. Use a ZX Spectrum from 1982 if it gets the results you want. Hell, the 64Bit Windows version of VRay looks very appealing until Steve Jobs and his cronies actually pull their fingers out and release a true 64Bit version of OSX.

[STRAT]

no worries m8 :) my colleagues are mac os users too (one of them recently converted from windows) and find my preference to windows similarly strange and 'backward'.

but as mentioned, vray will only be 64bit for windows users for the foreseeable future. a pretty crap situation if you ask me, as i always prefer to render through c4d on a mac whenever possible.

(i still play games on my ZX Spectrum btw :) )

[Neil V]

i always prefer to render through c4d on a mac whenever possible. )

That's interesting. Why is that? What could the benefit be? Surely their output is the same?

[STRAT]

because i find rendering on a mac 100000000 times more stable/reliable/predictable than when i'm in pc mode.

when in pc mode i only have up to 2-3 gig of ram available to me, and when vray runs out of ram it crashes out. i cant always be happy my final renders will happen. switch to mac mode and those worries go out the window. the mac will allow more ram than windows will as things stand, and i find the mac's processing procedures give more more confidence than what windows does. for instance, when windows runs out of ram you're basically buggered and need to re-load. not a problem on a mac. memory handling is sooooo much better.

yes, the pc and mac modes are both processing from the same chip on the same computer, but mac mode utilises things so much better.

[Neil V]

Ah, I see. I had no idea the PC would run into that many RAM issues. Reckon you should be a bit more economical with your poly count Strat! LOL! Only kidding. I'll bear that in mind though so thanks for the info.

[St Cana's]

"Windows to me feels like its been put together by a group of accountants and teachers with one of their 8 year old pupils in charge of the design."

lol! Excellent description! The 64bit thing is a bummer, though... Come on Apple, get your act together. We pay the bills, for God's sake!

Cheers
Karl

[celfcreative]

Just to clear one issue up - OSX (10.5) is fully 64bit - well kind of...

The real issue is Apple promising, then changing their mind, to support Carbon applications in 64bit. Apple has maintained two API for program development for some time but now wants everyone to use Cocoa (which is fully 64bit) and so has dropped 64bit support for Carbon. Unfortunately for us Mac users the biggest software houses like Adobe and Maxon now have to re-write their millions of lines of Carbon code...
Who knows how long that will take!

[Stephane]

Bootcamp scares me! It's still on in Beta isn't it? Never liked installing pre-release software, especially anything to do with your system. Or am I wrong about it being in Beta?
Bootcamp went final last year with Leopard (OS X 10.5).
Fusion and Parallels are still great options though. Crossover (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/) is a third option that doesn't support all applications but on the other hand doesn't use/need a Windows installation/license as a base. I've only tried it with "Xenodream" which seemed to work flawlessly.

Cheers,
Stéphane

[jeremy coombs]

For the attention of Strat- Hi I downloaded the brick designer from the web which is great, actually really great, - but when I save the brick image (jpeg) that I've designed and bought it into Cinema it's not very sharp . How are you saving and then applying your picture file so that it looks good?