Paving stones

Artwork Blender Tests
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I think these turned out relatively well - certainly not perfect or even fit for use in a finished piece, but reasonably well. I was wondering which people preferred and why, or if anybody has a far superior but [relatively] easy method for making such stones. I’m thinking making a bump or normal map out of these would also work (in order to save a final scene from having to much geometry).

Note: the material is the ‘stone’ material from the Sweblend material library.

http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testtypesmf3.jpg

Tarrosion

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i like the one on the right 'cos the cloud texture isn’t as noticable

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How about these?

Not really loving the way the texture looks on the edge of each stone, however.

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Waw, I’d say the last one is production ready…
How did you get them their ‘individuality’?

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Have a look at these ones. Free download
http://www.arroway.de/textures/de/index.html

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Thanks for the materials link :slight_smile:
UglyMike: After extruding upwards, I applied a subsurf + crease of about .4-.6. I applied the subdivision. Then I applied texture (slightly modified stone material from the Sweblend library), and hit ‘noise’ (not sure of the technical term). Of course, also moved a very few vertices by hand.

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yea instead of hitting the noise button a bunch of times just use the same texture as a bump map - set it to “nor” in the “map to” tab in the texture tabs.