But if we don’t want mortar as mortar in the woods, what about something else? We create a Stones<\/strong> like this to be an alternative height\u00a0map for out alternative gap filler, not mortar.<\/p>\n Then we just add a Color<\/strong> component to the Mortar<\/em> input of the Pavements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n THis is how it will look with just something else as gap filler on the wood, looking good.<\/p>\n Remember wha I said about one-trick-ponies? We put a Switch<\/strong>, or one for texture and one for height map, and a Checkbox<\/strong> which we name Mortar in wood.Now we let the user choose between mortar or our optional filler. Then \u00a0we need to make the bevel width selectable on the wood, so we add a Slider<\/strong> for that and hook it to the Bevel Width<\/em> input on both the texture and heigh tmap Pavements<\/strong>. We set the remapper to sane values.<\/p>\n Now, what would it look like with a different bevel width and the black gap filler selected?<\/p>\n I think i’s time to enable the user to change the wood pattern, the bond, so we hook an IntSlider<\/strong> to it and set limits between 1 and 9 as there are nine different bonds.<\/p>\n Now I got another idea, what about having some tiles that are missing? We add another Threshold<\/strong> component to the Stones we use to pick out the different colors for the stones.<\/p>\n Then \u00a0we add another Switch<\/strong> where we generate the mortar setup and connect a Checkbox<\/strong> to it that we call it missing tiles.<\/p>\n Now we Blend<\/strong> using darken the missing tiles<\/em> that should be filled with mortar upon the mortar pattern we have.<\/p>\n We can now hook this to se second input of the Switch.<\/p>\n So, how will this look? I think the basic idea is great, but it might need something more…<\/p>\n To add something more, we first add a Slider<\/strong> and call it Stone Scale, that wee hook up to both the Stones<\/strong>\u00a0we have for tile generation to the Scale<\/strong> input. Now we can set different sizes for the stone, remapping to 150 – 300 or something, to avoid pebbles.<\/p>\n We then add another stone, set small, and Threshold<\/strong> that.<\/p>\n Now we use the result from this as the Low<\/em> value for your missing tiles. Hopefully we will have broken tiles here.<\/p>\n Now the broken ones looks better, so does the smaller stones.<\/p>\n But what more can we fit into one day? Its still renders reasonable fast, compared with the slow one we had in a previous tutorial.<\/p>\n We can add a Slider called Brokens<\/em>, which we can use to co control how much broken parts we want in the missing spaces, then we can go from missing to many pieces, great way of choice.<\/p>\n To this we connect the Stone size slider but with another remapper range, so we get proportionally scaled broken pieces.<\/p>\n and at last, we create a Switch<\/strong>, and attach a bunch of differently setup curves, so we can choose from a selection of different bevels. Now I think we have made enough choices for one day.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/s801.jpg\" "\\"s801\\"")
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