Cool tool to make brick textures

[luckymutt]

Dig this!
So I'm sitting at work in the middle of a project that requires a decorative brick pattern, so I start looking about on ye ol' interweb looking for an efficient way to pull it off without having to spend hours in photoshop, and I found this:

http://www.accurateimage.com/acme/help/click.htm
(this is the help link, rather than me posting screenshots here)

It will make a tilable image that you can save as bmp, jpg, tga or tif
You start off with a pallettte of brick that you can quickly and easily change colors of brick, mortar, running bond, soldier coarses, etc.
Even replacing individual bricks to make a pattern.
And its FREE!

You can download it here:
http://www.accurateimage.com/acme/
It is intended to be a tool for them to sell their bricks, but it can definately be handy just for making images.

[afecelis]

neato! I had seen it long time ago but totally lost its track.
Great tool for designing masonry. Thnx for the link!

only drawback I see is, you have to be online to use it?

[luckymutt]

Yeah, you do. That download (about 180k) is just a client app.

However, I *think* that as you use it, it will keep the downloaded info, so that when you go to use it again, if you have previously used, say, the "colonial" brick, it won't need to connect again.



EDIT: Yeah, confirm that. I just closed my connection to see what would happen.

[Guest]

bricks are the easiest 2d thing to create why do you need a tool?

[eXodus]

To make the easiest thing easier.

[cmoibenlepro]

cool tool

[afecelis]

you should see the bricks I create by hand...they suck badly!

this tool rulezzz, specially for architectural rendering. You can even sit with your client and have them choose the brick they want in real time.

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it rulezz

[boboS]

it rulezzz it rulezz it rulezz!!!

Especialy for arhitects