Comments on: Masonry Wizard and Object Tiling scripts

By: sen

sen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:03:20 +0000

COOOL!!

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:58:32 +0000

GREAT !

By: Tadd

Tadd — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:07:35 +0000

Dang, awesome. I was working on some designs for visual aid in some writing … this is perfect for some of the scenes!

Well done!

By: StoneMason

StoneMason — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:59:39 +0000

As a person who is actually a stone mason i would recommend taking a little time to study the basic principles of stone masonry, as several things in the picture at the top of this page caught my eye as being improper, especially the running vertical joints in the section of wall above the columns. Each stone should be held down by two other stones, some people say put one stone on two, experiment with building blocks or legos and you can easily see what makes a strong wall. Also it is preferable to set a stone so that it is longer and wider than it is tall, have you ever fallen down when you were laying down? but you probably have fallen when you were standing up. Also the in the pathway there are places where four stones come together at once, which is mostly an aesthetic issue in a pathway but still it is good practice to break your joints and it will mirror the wall work. Most people wouldn't notice these things in particular, but I believe that it lends an air of cohesiveness and completeness to a project that the lay person will sense if the tenets of masonry are upheld. Search around for images of stonework, and try and find some good articles on stone masonry, a couple hours of research could greatly improve the overall quality of your "stonework".

By: Wereaser

Wereaser — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:51:46 +0000

And here I've been building pieces of castle with curve, cast and array modifiers and plain old fashioned polygon pushing… Oh well, at least I learned something new while doing it. :D

This will most certainly cut future castle building time down radically.

By: DGE

DGE — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:37:38 +0000

This looks good for building actual (I think?) mesh masonary.

If you want or need to reduce the geometry or have a simpler layout and could use a texture instead, have a look at Wizard's Tile Texture patch (initially a plug-in). Brickwork is one of the options. I wonder if there's some useful features in one that the other could adopt too. I'm not sure about it's current status (was talk of it going into the official branch) but there are builds on graphicall.org, latest is linked on page 19 of the thread.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=94666 (long thread!)

By: Oblenob

Oblenob — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:22:57 +0000

I just downloaded this last week. I love it. the randomness settings are good too.

By: lokidg

lokidg — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:51:32 +0000

Nice script i will use it to make some walls :D and streets !!!

By: aws357

aws357 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:39:58 +0000

agreeing with pictorali

Adding randomness would make it more natural.

Cool plugins indeed :)

By: Furio

Furio — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:42:14 +0000

DramaKing, it's not a script like this, it's the very same Auto Masonry from dudecon.