Bricking material
This is a brick patterned material. The displacement drives the color.
This is a brick patterned material which uses the displacement value to drive the color. This material can be used for a variety of building materials, like concrete blocks, simply by changing the size, shape and color of the "bricks".
Parameters
Surface
Ambient Intensity | A multiplier for the ambient contribution to the material. The ambient lighting model only looks at the ambient lights in the scene. If there are no ambient lights, this slider will have no affect. |
Lambert Intensity | A multiplier for the diffuse contribution to the material. |
Tint with Point Color | If this box is checked and the point color, (Cd), is defined, then Cd is multiplied with the Base Color. Defaults to on. |
Opacity | The opacity color for this material. |
Colors
Grout Color | The color in between the "bricks". Defaults to a grayish beige. |
Spline Type | This selector chooses the way the colors are interpolated. See spline for a more detailed discussion on splines.
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Brick Color 1 | The next color in the spline. When the driver of the spline is 0, this is the color returned. Defaults to terra cotta. |
Brick Color 2 | The next color in the spline. When the driver of the spline is 0.25, this is the color returned. Defaults to dark brick red. |
Brick Color 3 | The next color in the spline. When the driver of the spline is 0.5, this is the color returned. Defaults to reddish brown. |
Brick Color 4 | The next color in the spline. When the driver of the spline is 0.75, this is the color returned. Defaults to brick red. |
Brick Color 5 | The last color in the spline. When the driver of the spline is 1, this is the color returned. More may be added as desired. Defaults to a medium brown. |
Mottling
Mottle Color | This color is mixed with the brick color to give a non-uniform, mottled appearance to the brick. Defaults to a light beige. |
Mottle Frequency | The scale of the noise pattern. Larger values give smaller, but not more detailed, patterns. Smaller values will benefit from higher Octaves values. |
Mottle Offset | This vector re-positions the noise on the object in x, y and z. |
Mottle Octaves | This value controls the amount of detail in the noise. This is the number of times the noise function is called and added to the previous value. The higher the Frequency, the less detail is needed. |
Noise Space | This is the space the mottling noise is calculated in. Texture or Object are recommended to keep the noise pattern from "swimming" across the object’s surface. |
Displacement
Grout
Grout Depth | The depth of the grout or mortar. |
Grout Width | The width of the grout or mortar. |
Grain Frequency | The scale of the grain in the grout. Larger values give a finer grain. See aanoise for more information on grain distribution. |
Grain Height | The height the grain rises above the surface of the grout. |
Bricks
Bricks Across | This is number of blocks across, in the s direction. |
Bricks Down | This is number of blocks up and down, in the t direction. |
Bricks Stagger | This is amount of the block offset. A zero in both stagger and jitter will give blocks lined up in both directions. |
Bricks Jitter | This keeps the blocks from being too "perfect". It adds a little jitter to the layout. |
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Dent Frequency | The scale of the dents. Larger values give more, but smaller, dents. |
Dent Size | The size of the dents. This also affects the depth. |
Dent Depth | This controls the how deep the dents are. |
Dent Scale | This space in between the dents. This also affects the depth. |
Properties
Displacement Bounds | Usually tying this value to the displacement Overall Scale should work well. However making the displacement bounds as small as possible, without causing "rips" in the render, can lower render times. See render properties for more information. |