Procedural Stone Wall Generator

by 5 Minutes Blender in Addons


Does it deform the actual mesh or does it only create a stone shader for the selected object?

Both. This add-on will primarily create a collection of stone pieces to build the stone wall. Additionally, it also adds a suitable shader material for the perfect stone appearance. If you want to use your own stone material with the generated mesh objects, you can easily do that as well.

Why does it take too long to execute?

It can take several minutes to execute because this add-on deals with hundreds or thousands of objects, their geometry and shader. This is a normal behavior, just like similar add-ons e.g. Cell Fracture add-on. You can reduce this wait time by planning your job suitably. If you need to create a large wall or a large ground with stone, create a small part of that wall or ground. Then convert it to a stone wall and create several instances of that stone wall. Combine them together to form the large wall/ ground. It not only reduces the execution time, it will also reduce the load on your RAM since much of the data we are keeping in the memory is instanced data instead of real object data.

I have created a stone wall, but it has got too many vertices. My machine can't handle it. How can I reduce the vertex count or how do I create a low-poly version?

There are two options in the operator box: Decimate and Simplify. Both of them will reduce the vertex count resulting in a lower poly. You can turn on both, but don't use a very high decimate level because it can also destroy the shape of the stones. Using these options can further increase the execution time, so don't use them when you are experimenting with the look & feel of the stone wall. Enable them when it is final. Additionally, you can convert parts of the wall into instances as described above, it will also reduce the load on your machine.

Does it convert objects of any shape into a stone wall?

No. This add-on will create only rectangular stone wall, or rectangular ground, pavement, road etc. If the selected object is not rectangular, the add-on will still work - it will create the stone structure based on the object's bounding box (which is always rectangular).

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Details
Sales 40+
Dev Fund Contributor
Published over 1 year ago
Software Version 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4
Render Engine Used Cycles, Eevee
License GPL