OmniTiles
Walls & Tiles DEMO
Creating wall and tile materials was never easier. WALLS & TILES DEMO is the free trial version of WALLS & TILES, a very easy-to-use 3Ds Max material that creates procedural walls and floors based on multiple single bitmaps. The auto-loader loads bitmaps from a folder into the corresponding layers for bump, diffuse, reflection and displacement, without the need to manually load every single bitmap by hand. Once loaded, you can select one of 16 bond patterns, set the size, randomize position, color and surface, and you are ready to go.
Creating wall and tile materials was never easier. WALLS & TILES is a very easy-to-use 3ds max material that creates procedural walls and floors based on multiple single bitmaps. The auto-loader loads bitmaps from a folder into the corresponding layers for bump, diffuse, reflection and displacement, without the need to manually load every single bitmap by hand. Once loaded, you can select one of 16 bond patterns, set the size, randomize position, color and surface, and you are ready to go. The Real-World mapping mode simplifies the use of wall textures in scenes by eliminating the need for individual uv-mapping per object. If you want to create bond patterns with a repeating pattern, just use the Linear Sequence instead of randomized distribution. For more information, please take a look at the reference guide.
[ngg_images gallery_ids=”39″ display_type=”ds-nextgen_royalslider”]What is Walls & Tiles ?
AND WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR ?
WALLS & TILES is a 3DS MAX® material plugin that any architect or 3D visualization artist will love. Unlike static bitmap textures, Walls & Tiles is a flexible material which can CHANGE BOND PATTERNS, REPLACE BRICKS, MIX DIFFERENT BRICKS, CHANGE MORTAR, RANDOMIZE COLORS and much more. With the newly integrated MATERIAL MANAGER, loading and managing materials is easier than ever.
Whatever needs an architect or 3D artist might have, Walls & Tiles offers unprecedented flexibility and ease-of-use with the creation of wall and floor materials for any kind of building.
Random Walls and Floors
NO MORE REPETITION
When using standard bitmaps to create walls or floors, in most cases REPETITION will be visible, resulting in an unrealistic and unwanted effect in a image. Avoiding this repetition would require a very large bitmap, which again uses a lot of RAM in high resolution. Besides, such textures are difficult to get anyway.
Walls & Tiles uses random algorithms to distribute bricks or tiles in a pattern. Using this method not only SAVES RAM but it also avoids visible REPETITION, resulting in a more realistic look.
Flexible Patterns
CHANGE BOND PATTERNS ON THE FLY
With Walls & Tiles you are not limited to the BOND PATTERN from your bitmap texture. You can choose from 16 different bond patterns for brick walls, tiled floors or interior wall tiles. With any set of brick or stone floor multi-textures, the patterns can be changed on the fly.
The included bond patterns offer a wide variety of standard bonds for many kinds of walls and floors, found in old ancient buildings, modern architecture, large buildings, standard houses and even interior floor tiles.
The integrated CUSTOM BOND can be used to create your own bond patterns, if required. More information can be found in the REFERENCE GUIDE.
Randomization
RANDOMIZE COLOR, POSITION, SURFACE
Bricks can further be changed randomly: Diffuse maps can be varied by randomizing HUE, SATURATION, VALUE for every brick. BUMP levels, REFLECTION levels and DISPLACEMENT levels can be randomized to get more surface variation and ROTATION, SIZE, POSITION and WIDTH can be randomized to avoid straight lines.
As a result, even with few or even only one bitmap, a large random wall or floor can be created.
Material Manager Lite Edition
EASY HANDLING OF MATERIALS
WALLS & TILES includes the new Material Manager Lite Edition, which makes preset handling a very fast and easy task. Material Manager is directly connected to Walls & Tiles so that loading, saving and maintaining presets can be done in a single tool. Forget about missing bitmaps, forget about searching through folders, once you know the benefits of Material Manager, you won´t want to live without it anymore.
Included Basic Library
10 MULTITEXTURES OF BRICKS AND TILES
The included library in the STANDARD version of Walls & Tiles include 12 high quality multi-texture sets for interior tiles and brick walls. The textures are all hand-edited and include layers for DIFFUSE, BUMP, DISPLACEMENT, REFLECTION and ALPHA layers. All multitextures available as VRAY MATERIALS, CORONA MATERIALS or SCANLINE materials through Material Manager.
Roeben Accum
from Standard Walls
Roeben Buckingham
from Standard Walls
Roeben Neumarkt II
from Standard Walls
China Hutong
from Aged Walls
Berlin Short
from Aged Walls
Big White
from Modern Walls
Bikeway
from Stone Floors
Cobblestones I
from Stone Floors
Roman Mosaic
from Stone Floors
Sidewalk I
from Stone Floors
MORE MULTITEXTURES FOR WALLS & TILES
Extend Walls & Tiles with more texture and materials
View PDF online
View PDF online
View PDF online
View PDF online
Documentation
WALLS & TILES REFERENCE GUIDE
The WALLS & TILES online reference guide includes a detailed description of each parameter with rendered examples of the most important parameters and their results. For more information, please take a look at the reference guide
The reference guide is also available through a link from within the Walls & Tiles GUI help window.
More information will be available in the TUTORIALS section and the ONLINE FORUM.
If you are stuck, you can also use the DIRECT SUPPORT form and send us your request.
Walls & Tiles - Online Reference GuideChangelog
Walls & Tiles – Changelog
Version 1.5.1 (June 24, 2017)
- FIX: Fixed various potential crashes with Max 2017
- FIX: Includes Crossmap 1.4.9.7
Version 1.5.0 (May 24, 2017)
- NEW: Support for Max 2018
- NEW: Variation Presets
- NEW: Randomization of Parameters
- NEW: Better realtime thumbnail preview with ratio display
- NEW: Default diffuse brick bitmap loaded when creating new material
- NEW: New license system with VP License Manager
- FIX: Potential crashes when working with Max 2017 (2017.1.1 update required)
- FIX: [Corona version] Bump and normal map support
- CHANGE: Crossmap 1.4.9 required
- CHANGE: Dropped Max 2012 support
Version 1.4.4.01 (February 09, 2017)
- FIX: Maxcript errors and possible crash when loading legacy scenes
Version 1.4.3.05 (September 12, 2016)
- FIX: crash when opening preference dialog
- FIX: A crash when opening the Probabilities dialog in some cases
- FIX: mapping mode and random sequence buttons could not be pressed in Max 2017
- FIX: demo expired link for Crossmap leads to wrong URL
- CHANGE: Extended brick width and height from 10.0 m to 100.0 m for better compatibility with millimeter units
- CHANGE: Swapped Load and Save Preset buttons position
- CHANGE: URL colors changed from yellow to orange for better readability on dark and light grey GUI
- CHANGE: Added Crossmap 1.4.7 (see Crossmap changelog for changes)
Version 1.4.1.02 (May 17, 2016)
- NEW: Support for 3Ds Max 2017
- NEW: Added Crossmap 1.4.5 update
- NEW: Added Material Manager 1.1.8 LE update
- CHANGE: Dropped support for 3Ds Max 2010 and 2011
- CHANGE: Dropped support for V-Ray 1.x and 2.x
Version 1.4.1.02 (Sept. 23, 2015)
- FIX: 1.4.1 Update notification appearing although W&T is up to date
- FIX: Installer did not install W&T (vray) for max 2013 properly
Version 1.4.1 (Sept. 22, 2015)
- IMPROVEMENT: significant speed improvements when loading / creating materials
- IMPROVEMENT: Added new Crossmap 1.4.1 version with improved licensing integration
- IMPROVEMENT: Added Material Manager 1.0.1 update with fix for Corona compatibility
- FIX: auto-size calculation wrong in some cases, resulting in rows = 1
- FIX: Added Crossmap Material Manager library presets
Version 1.4.0 (May 19, 2015)
- NEW FEATURE: Material Manager 1.0 Lite Edition integration
- NEW FEATURE: Material preset library for vray, Corona, scanline
- NEW FEATURE: New Crossmap 1.4.0 included
- NEW FEATURE: Render to Maps (bake bitmaps and create new material)
- NEW FEATURE: New copy protection with nodelocked and floating licenses
- NEW FEATURE: Full featured 14 day demo without activation
- IMPROVEMENT: Display message in Max 2014 or higher to improve viewport performance settings
- INSTALLER: Support for 3DS MAX 2016
- FIX: Maxscript error when loading old scenes with missing bitmaps
- FIX: update correct infos in statistics on clear bitmaps
- FIX: auto-size calculation wrong in some cases, resulting in rows = 1
- FIX: last selected folder not remembered correctly during session
Version 1.3.2 (March 06, 2015)
- IMPROVEMENT: New Crossmap 1.3.11 included
- IMPROVEMENT: Corona Renderer v1.0 compatibility
- IMPROVEMENT: Max number of rows now 10.000 instead of 1.000
- BUG FIX: deactivated blur value set to 0.01 on creation of plugin
Version 1.3.1 (May 13, 2014)
- NEW FEATURE: 3Ds Max 2015 support included
- NEW FEATURE: New Crossmap 1.3.9 included
- NEW FEATURE: added Corona Render material version (in installation folder – no automatic installation)
- BUG FIX: saved materials (.mat files) were not loaded correctly (bitmaps were missing)
- BUG FIX: file path was not remembered when loading bitmaps from a folder
- BUG FIX: online update check was not working correctly sometimes
- BUG FIX: fixed “override effect ID” error message in standard material version
- BUG FIX: fixed some problems with preferences and autoload button script errors
Version 1.3.0 (March 10, 2014)
- NEW FEATURE: New Crossmap 1.3.8 included
- NEW FEATURE: random hsv now has up / down selection buttons
- NEW FEATURE: diagonal mirroring
- NEW FEATURE: add vray displacement modifier button with automatic settings
- NEW FEATURE: Automatic Size (calculated the number of rows based on brick size and uv map)
- NEW FEATURE: improved performance by instancing 1 noise map instead of 6 noise maps on creation
- IMPROVEMENT: Simplified shader network by replaceing Color Correction maps with xmap color corrections
- BUG FIX: cancelling the select session directory caused a crash of the script
- BUG FIX: diffuse color was reset on next scene loading, even if different color was selected
- BUG FIX: error when clicking “Select Folder” “Preferences” or “List Bitmaps” after loading a session with WAT
- BUG FIX: autoratio switch was turned on when loading old scenes, causing wrong ratios
- BUG FIX: wrong colors on the bitmaps when loading old scenes into 2014
- BUG FIX: random probability mode was not switched correctly, resulting in non-functioning probabilities
- BUG FIX: sometimes maxscript errors appeared when opening preferences dialog, resulting in a WAT crash
Version 1.2.0 (July 17, 2013)
- NEW FEATURE: Random Probability mode to adjust per-tile-probabilites
- NEW FEATURE: Tile List dialog window to list tiles and probabilities
- NEW FEATURE: Use a procedural map or bitmap as mortar
- NEW FEATURE: Blend between procedural and original mortar
- NEW FEATURE: Statistics rollout with information about RAM use and pixel resolutions
- NEW FEATURE: Independent adjustment of with/height for crop edges and procedural edges
- NEW FEATURE: VP CROSSMAP version 1.3.4 included
- IMPROVEMENT: Show bitmap names while loading in auto-load rollout
- IMPROVEMENT: Multimatte vray element supported for Walls & Tiles on channel 1
- IMPROVEMENT: Changelog weblink in about screen
- FIXED: Changed tile hue values from -100/100 to -180/180
- FIXED: Bump channel sometimes was too blurred when using real world mapping
- FIXED: crop edge and procedural edge were calculated wrong (old scenes need to be updated)
- KNOWN ISSUE: Nitrious viewport may result in slow gui refresh when textures are on in viewport (2013/2014 only)
- KNOWN ISSUE: crop edges and random probability preview in viewport only works if rendering was triggered once
Version 1.1 (February 27, 2013)
- NEW FEATURE: Custom Bond patterns
- NEW FEATURE: Check for update (online)
- NEW FEATURE: Global hue, saturation, value for tiles
- NEW FEATURE: Select and store default library path in global preferences
- IMPROVEMENT: Material and viewport preview now updates on random HSV, new random seed, random/linear sequence
- IMPROVEMENT: Autoload Filter settings stored in global preferences
- FIX: maxscript error when using color correction in diffuse map
- FIX: crop edge sometimes not working correctly
Version 1.0 (December 2, 2012)
- NEW FEATURE: Automatic Ratio calculation while loading diffuse bitmaps
- NEW FEATURE: Normal map support
- NEW FEATURE: Global Gamma correction
- NEW FEATURE: Load alpha maps for splitting mortar from bricks
- NEW FEATURE: Change mortar brightness and contrast when alpha maps are loaded
- IMPROVEMENT: Keep open file path stored in current session
- IMPROVEMENT: Initial start will have per object mapping mode selected
- IMPROVEMENT: Clear button for clearing all bitmaps
- IMPROVEMENT: SORT all bitmaps after loading to avoid asynchronous layers
- IMPROVEMENT: Alpha mask now includes changes in hsv randomization excluding mortar
- FIX: sometimes missing maps in previews (green gaps)
- FIX: strange reflection when no normal maps are loaded
- FIX: alpha mask turned off after load, display wrong, controllers off
- FIX: sometimes alpha maps are not recognized correctly after loading in numberslot
- FIX: wrong cropping in proportion side and top-bottom. Now crops correct related to aspect ratio
- FIX: script error when loading scenes saved with previous beta version
- FIX: bump channel not working in vray material
Version 0.9.9 beta (August 24, 2012)
- Fixed a crash caused by Walls & Tiles with BerconTile and Crossmap in 3dsmax2013 when opening the material list
- Fixed Aspect ratio parameter when loading a scene
- Changed script structure to allow “in-between” maps between BerconTile and the material (e.g. Color Correction)
- Added 5 new bond patterns: Rap Trap bond, Stretcher bond 2/3, Stretcher bond 3/3, Stretcher bond 2/4, Stretcher bond 4/4
- Added new “Distortion” feature for distorting the complete map
- Updated all bond pattern icons
Version 0.9.7 beta (August 08, 2012)
- Fixed installer for 3ds Max Design
Version 0.9.7 beta (August 01, 2012)
- First beta release
Walls & Tiles - Frequently Asked Questions
Technical Information
| 3ds max compatibility | 3Ds Max 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 |
|---|---|
| Supported renderer | Scanline and compatible, vray (not vray RT), Corona Renderer |
| Rendernodes | unlimited rendernodes included |
| Download | 420 MB (.zip file containing the installer.exe, basic texture-library, demo scenes and previews) |
Share your thoughts!
Let us know what you think...
Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review. Log in now
damien11235 (verified owner) –
Excellent for keeping map sizes small and yet prevent any kind of tiling no matter how large the surface.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
lifecode (verified owner) –
This is awesome plugin, just few clicks to achieve an advanced level of realism and complexity.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
Question
tomdarch –
Will this work for creating micro-seam flooring patterns for something like vct or lvt?
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
tomdarch –
That’s perfect. Thank you!
(0) (0)
Admin VIZPARK (verified owner) –
Yes, it will work for both, but it strongly depends on what type of pattern you want to create. Mosaic patterns with specific patterns and tiles are not possible (just randomly distributed). For Mosaic patterns you should take a look at our MOSAIC plugin. Also, Walls & Tiles is limited to the type of patterns itself. If you want to create wood floor parquet patterns, you should also look at OMNITILES as well. Hope this helps…
(1) (0)
Fahad (verified owner) –
Perfect plugin for 3DsMax, A must have for ArchViz. No bugs and it’s affordable
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
Fahad (verified owner) –
This product is great. works perfectly with no bugs and it’s affordable.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
bojance23 (verified owner) –
This is very helpful tool, saves time and money. Tnx Vizpark for this :). People should try it!
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
brettlearch (verified owner) –
helped alot with my work.. looking to purchase this in the near future
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
pepe (verified owner) –
muy buen aporte, una plataforma muy intuitiva y fácil de manejar.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
tainosun (verified owner) –
I started using the Wall & Tiles Demo version of this product recently and I am doing some basic texturing and mapping, so far, so good!
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
tulcarion (verified owner) –
I use PRO version of Walls & TIles and it is just an awesome plug-in. It saves me a lot of time!
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
javier (verified owner) –
gran aporte, con muy buenos resultados en los renders, gracias !!!!!
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
candela_cs (verified owner) –
very good post, i already use the aged walls and i got great results, thanks!
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
Alexv17 (verified owner) –
Brilliant Plugin! Support is very fast. Submitted a ticket and got a helpful response within minuets.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
Ramon (verified owner) –
Great product
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
p.pietruczak –
Powerfull and extremely versatile set of tools. It brought my CGIs to whole new level. Apart from small and not so annoying problems in viewport previewing plugin works flawlessly and it’s quite easy to use.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
enrico (verified owner) –
Great product.Good texture
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch
ohearnja (verified owner) –
Great product. Wish it worked for mental ray though.
(0) (0) Watch Unwatch