I was wondering if it is possible to tweak one of blender’s default procedural texture generators (like voronoi or bricks) into producing set geometric shapes like triangles, polygons, hexagons, etc. with controllable side lengths (or at least tiling), and side thickness/color. Can it be done? Can it be done with OSL? I know, there are workarounds, but they’re complicated and are either time-consuming, or CPU-consuming, an
*I have found an OSL script that does something similar but not quite what I want, as it’s limited to picking hexagon colors only, and has a weird displace output.
well there is a script trick for making mesh hexagon
but don’t think you can set width of edges
but you might e able to use the inset faces with multextrude script !
Such procedural textures would be very useful - but I dont think there is a way to do it in Blender currently without going down the OSL route.
I used to use Imagine 3D a long time ago on the Amiga - and that had fantastic support for procedural textures. Several third parties made add ons and I think the ones in the link below are a derivation of those original Imagine 3D procedural textures (they certainly look very similar).
Yeah, I noticed that he had a generated texture in the node setup too… But! If you go back to the original script that I mentioned in the first post (http://archive.today/uHJRN), you’ll see that he used UV maps. Since the new script is just a modified version of the old one, I assume nothing changed there, and he used the generated texture for simplicity (because he projected it onto a plane).
So, do use UV maps.
—EDIT—
Just spent a good half-hour trying to figure out why the texture was projecting in one blend file but not in the other. In the end I realized that I didn’t have the OSL turned on…
well i look at his blog page and it does show it as a generated texture
and did not see what scale was needed !
may be let him know
might be a mistake !
Got so used to those freebie filesaring websites.
