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Quick tutorial on how to make a brick wall texture.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:17 am
by Rav3n
Last night i made a short tutorial on how to create a brick wall texture out of any texture you find.

I hope someone finds it useful, if you think anything needs changing let me know.

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Brick wall texture tutorial

Re: Quick tutorial on how to make a brick wall texture.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:41 am
by Eraser
Nice. But the hardest part is getting it to be tileable if your source material isn't :)

Re: Quick tutorial on how to make a brick wall texture.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:53 am
by Rav3n
Yeah that is true, the brick texture should be seamless itself.
However the grouts help a little with that and it's a lot easier to make a standard texture seamless then to mess around with an already finished poorly made brick texture.

Re: Quick tutorial on how to make a brick wall texture.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:32 pm
by Tabun
If you make brick textures this way, it's also nicer to make the overlayed pattern both provide highlights and shadows (instead of just shadows -- with multiply), and try other layer modes, to keep the colours fresh. Also, I'd suggest cutting up the texture layer (or working with layer masks) to create at least some separate bricks. If the texture behind the pattern is continuous over all the bricks, there's no real illusion that they are individual units.