Bricks'n Tiles

Bricks’n Tiles (www.bricksntiles.com) Free for personal use, $45 for commercial license. Creates unique brick, masonry, stone, tiles, and seamless wood textures with bump and normal maps. You will need to experiment because the help and instructions are not too good, but if I can figure it out, anyone can. Also create textures for arches, left border, right border, or both borders. All results are seamless tiles. Essentially, you use GIMP, Photoshop, or other editor to cut out individual bricks, stones, planks, etc. You only need one example, but it works best if you have 5-10 different bricks, stones, or planks because it will give your seamless tile more natural variety. You then load an tile of mortar, stucco, cement, caulking, etc. The result will be a random display of your bricks, stones, planks with mortar with bump and normal maps in seamless tiles. It works well once you get the hang of it and your tile will be unique from other images of brick and stone walls (paths, roads, etc.) and floors.

There is an update button in the upper right corner. You need to remember to click on it anything you make a change or create a new file. It took me a while to realize that I had to do it every time.

I get an error saying the site could not be found, are you sure you typed the link correctly?

There was a typo in the URL. Fixed.

I’ve seen this before, while it may indeed be useful for those who have a library of source images for tiled floors and brick walls, it won’t be of much use to those who prefer a more complete texture making program where they can apply their own materials to brick walls and the like. (since this is specific and actually requires that you have a photo on hand).

It’s basically one application out of a group of low-cost texturing programs found around the web that are devoted to doing one main thing and doing it well, good for those on a tight budget, but there’s more complete solutions out there.

Ace Dragon, you’re probably thinking of the free app called “acme brick masonry designer”. It’s only available as Windows 32-bit though. I don’t recall if it did normals/bump though, but it could make seamless textures.

Thing is - if you know how to work procedural materials in Blender, you can do much fancier stuff with Blender’s built-in brick generator. A bit of cleverness applied with some Voronoi also makes half-decent stone walls or paths. (Workflow is likely more involved though if you plan on baking for use outside of Blender.)