William Miller’s New and Improved Polybook

[Cookie Dough]

I think there’s a setting in cell fracture that lets you keep the faces that were subtracted. 

[William Miller]

Here’s the video I made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcX9Z2Kcw8k

Now that I’m done with it, I’ll get back to the ruins.

[William Miller]

It turns out there isn’t.

[William Miller]

I don’t want to get into the habit of not finishing projects, but this is hopeless.  Cell fracture deleted random chunks of the wall and created floating vertices and edges everywhere.  There is also lots of this:

I really want to do something else, but I also want to actually finish something for once.

[spikeyxxx]

That is very strange William. Did a little test with Cell Fracture (default settings) and got this:

[William Miller]

This is the last straw.  The bricks will be a texture.

[William Miller]

I’m beginning to second-guess my decision to make the bricks a texture.  Perhaps it should be adobe/mud/plaster instead.  What do you think?

[Cookie Dough]

Don’t do it instead, do it in addition to. Maybe have a gradient that starts from the bottom one material and is another one at the top.

[William Miller]

How would that work?  I find it hard to imagine a wall that is bricks at the bottom and adobe at the top…

[Cookie Dough]

Sorry, I was thinking of something different.

I was thinking you could do it like this, where it’s smoother at the base, then around where it collapsed and higher up it has less mortar keeping it together.

[William Miller]

I can’t get this to look right.

[spikeyxxx]

Maybe this can help you get started with the cracks. It’s just a basic set up, you can easily create a mask, so the cracks aren’t all over the place. Add some color variation. Some small dents and a larger scale, slight ‘waviness’ to the surface, etc…

[William Miller]

I’m trying to make it look good around the edges, but for some reason pointiness doesn’t do anything.  Do you know why?

[spikeyxxx]

Hi William, Pointiness doesn’t work with Eevee (yet). Material Preview Mode also uses Eevee.

[Cookie Dough]

Now I see what you are talking about. That makes more sense to do it that way.

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