Hi everyone I’m wondering how I’d go about replicating these groove like texture like on the columns in this photo in 3D? Best way to do it. 
I think we can make it with Blender NPR.
Or you can use grease pencil brushes or mix them with NPR.
I’m not familiar with this, so I’m leaving a link for your reference. (NPR)
Since you posted this in Materials and Textures , I assume you’re looking for a shader solution, not a modeling solution. In that case, it’s very easy:
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Yes that’s what I’m looking for I’ll copy your example thank you!
I suppose doing the layer blocks would work best with geometry nodes?
You could do it with geometry nodes for sure. I personally would model it with cubes, join all the cubes into one object, and add a Remesh modifier to get the smooth edges between blocks. I’d then do a quick sculpting pass to add some of those finer details. Lots of ways to do it
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Thank you for the quick reply yeah I started doing it that way with cubes and joining them together. I’ll try the remesh modifier as well thank you so much!
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By using two remesh modifiers, one with higher adaptivity, you can get some really interesting results very easily (this is just cubes I scaled more or less randomly)
My simple deform modifiers are quite extreme, but adding even a little bit of simple deform will help add organic variation to the results of the remesh modifiers
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Awesome I’ll be given this a try thank you
