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Take a look at Trowel: The Ultimate Brick Wall Generator – a very useful Blender add-on made by VFXGuide that, well, lets you easily construct brick walls.
The versatile tool offers an advanced logic system built with over 1,500 "carefully tailored" nodes. You can simply adjust the parameters you need to make your perfect wall, and the add-on will do all the work.
Trowel provides a bunch of presets, masking tools, modifiers, interactive Boolean operations, and more for users of any Blender experience. It automatically generates the necessary brick sizes for you but also allows you to create custom bricks.
Key Features:
- Brick Presets: Choose from 17 predefined brick sizes based on country or create your own custom set from selection with a click of a button.
- Various brick bond types: Easily achieve different styles with 3 commonly used bond types - Stack, Running, or Common bond.
- Advanced masking tools: Create realistic and visually appealing variations in your brick walls using Line Mask, Height Mask 1.2, Object Mask, Noise Mask and NEW ROW MASK.
- Powerful modifiers: Fine-tune your creations with PosRotScale, Random Position, Random Rotation, Random Scale, and 180-Degree Randomizer modifiers.
- Memory-efficient instancing: Handle thousands of bricks with ease, thanks to Trowel's highly optimized and memory-efficient instancing system.
- Seamless integration: Trowel is built upon Blender's Geometry Nodes, allowing you to utilize the full potential of Geometry Nodes in your projects.
- Interactive Boolean operations: Easily cut doors, windows, and other openings in your brick walls.
- Intuitive UI: Access Trowel's features through the N panel in 3D View and the Trowel menu in Geometry Nodes Editor.
- Beginner-friendly and expert-ready: Start creating quickly using automated workflows or dive into manual mode for complete control.
VFXGuide recommends using Trowel with One Click Damage – their add-on that helps you generate highly detailed high-poly bricks to use in Trowel's High-Poly collection instances. There is also a Cracker plug-in, which streamlines the process of making cracks. It was apparently used in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2, so you know it's good.
And if you want to see other generators for Blender, check out these articles:
A New Geometry Nodes-Based Brick Wall Generator for Blender
A Procedural Wall Generator by Anastastia Opara Gets Trees & Flowers
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