Brick

[soulburn3d]

Well, first crop your photo, then use the offset filter to see your seams. The problem I assume you're seeing is that one half of a brick doesn't even sort of line up with the brick on the other side. I'd recommend replacing the whole brick. As in, paint away all the bricks at the seams (using something that looks like the mortar around the bricks), then copy and paste full bricks from other parts of the bitmap overtop. Then when you offset it back, the bricks should line up. it's a bit of manual labor, but it should provide you what you're after.

- Neil

[biscuitcleaver]

Ahh, that's brilliant!

What about lighting. I notice that the lighting is a bit uneven in the texture. I've used the high pass filter in photoshop to fix this before, but the mortar looks bad because of this. Any tips for that?
just dodge and burn it?

[soulburn3d]

Try seperating the mortar out into a seperate layer (hopefully the bricks and mortar are different enough color it won't be too hard to seperate). Then apply different amounts of the highpass filter to the bricks layer and mortar layer, allowing you to keep the right level of detail in both.

- Neil

[soulburn3d]

Oh, and just a note. Something like a brick wall will be one of the worst offenders when you tile it. So make sure in your scene you have something, whether it be lighting, objects in front of the wall, whatever, to make sure you don't notice the tiling. Even a seamless tile can still look tiled if specific patterns appear at regular intervals.

- Neil

[biscuitcleaver]

Yeah, I completely agree. This will be for a half life 2 mod I'm creating, and I almost regret creating an entire world filled with brick :)


Oh well, the good thing is that it'll be kind of a ghetto area which means, tons of graffiti art, broken glass, concrete ledges, and broken down walls to hide the tiling issues.

I love brick, it's one of my favorite building styles. You can tell alot by a brick building. You can tell how old the building is by the wear and tear on the brick; Whether or not there had been fires within. Sometimes the area of the country you are in.

The reason why Chicago has so many brick buildings was because of the great chicago fire in 1871. That's the rumor at least.

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