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Randomising Brick Patterns

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
October 20, 2021
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Hi,

I create a lot of seamless textures of various bricks for 3D CAD rendering. To date, I have opened a photoshop file in AI (with layers as objects) and have been manually rearranging the bricks under a pre-created guide.

Is it possible to arange many bricks and be able to randomise it? Or somehow create a brush, or altenative that lays them out automatically?

Thanks in advance.

Louis.

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Is every brick a separate image?

Louis3Author

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Hi,

Yes. They are photoshop layers opened as individual elements in AI.

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Hi

Yes - the elements are the size of one brick. Apologies, but I don't know where to start with a random swatches fill script, except Google!

The script can be found here:

https://github.com/psstmatt/Random-Swatch-Fill/blob/master/RandomSwatchesFill.js

You will need to create a grid first with rectangles that have the size of your bricks (Object > Path > Split Into Grid).

Select the grid, Shift select the Pattern Swatches and run the script.

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Can you share your sample Illustrator file?

Louis3Author

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Hi,

Thanks for coming back. I do, but the file is too large to share here?