Procedural Tiles

For any specific request, I'm all ears. But I think there are half a dozen tiles that can achieve the grid setup. For instance DoubleQuad and DoubleSquareTile can do exactly that with the right tweaks.

Thanks a lot!! Yeah, they are still a very shader thing to me. I do see some use cases in GeoNodes, but they aren't as many as in the Material "realm". So for now I'll rather leave it as something you can occasionally port to GeoNodes if needed.

About the baking thing... yes you loose the procedural control. But even for procedural oriented guys like us, using image based textures is important. Render times for instance can greatly decrease if you use a plain texture instead of the actual procedural material, which you can tweak as much as you want until you settle for a setup you like, and bake it. Plus, texture based materials are still the common language for sharing with software else than Blender. And that is pretty cool cuz you can bake so many variations from a single setup. You can eventually perhaps sell them!

I see. I had somebody also with a problem related to v4.4 I assume that the problem lies in the blender extensions page side of things. I know the addon works for v4.2 v4.3 and v5.0

If running it in 4.4 is necessary, it is possible to pick up the extension from github -> zip it manually -> and installing the addon.

Hey thanks for the feedback! I'm gonna try to answer you questions.

1. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is definitely something I'm gonna be working on for future versions of the addon, so stay tuned for that. As for the current solution, you could go directly into the addon's files. To do that, go under preferences > Add-ons > [search for procedural tiles] > [click in the file icon], this will open the file explorer in which you are gonna find a file called "icons", that could serve as "gallery" for the time being.

2. That's so cool! Of course you can use the addon this way. I think I know what is the problem.

You are likely trying this with a subdivision modifier and the displacement option from the material. This is not gonna work, cuz displacing the geometry from the material does not modify the actual geometry you can edit and deal with in conventional ways. Meaning that when you export this geometry, nothing is gonna be displaced at all.

Solutions:

1. The way I recommend you to do this is: bake a high resolution image of the height-map (black and white), and then use it in a displacement modifier after the subdivision modifier.

2. The unnecessarily harder way is: you could open up a node from the addon, strip all of its contents and rebuild it in a geometry node setup, from which you can do whatever you want, including displacing geometry of course.

Anyway. Share it with your friends if you liked it!

Hi! Hmmm... I don't exactly know what I might be causing this, but is very unlikely to be a version related error, since I've tested the addon in almost all versions till blender 5.0, and it works just fine.

The error you see, arises (sometimes) when you try to add a node that hasn't been added yet. This is because under the hood the addon appends a node from another file if it is not already there (in the current .blend file as a node group). And "appending" is not something you can do while in edit mode (or in other modes that I may not know of). So... try this:

1. Make sure that you have blender in a state/mode where you can append things. This might solve it!

2. If not, then try uninstalling the addon and installing it again. Maybe even use a couple of friends' computers for testing and suggesting the addon to them :)

3. As last resort, try upgrading blender to 5.0

Dude, thank you for passing by! Go for it man. Hope the demo videos help you :D

Hi! thanks for the report. This should be fixed in the current version of the addon (0.0.4). So go try it, and if you like it even more, consider sharing it with your friends! 😁