In this video, we check out Trowel - a brand new add-on for Blender that uses geometry notes to create realistic brick structures in 3D!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - Where to find Trowel
0:50 - Installing and Enabling Trowel
1:14 - Adding your brick set to Blender
2:18 - How to add bricks or blocks to a 3D object in Blender
3:05 - How to adjust the spacing of the bricks
4:19 - How to create custom bricks and blocks
5:22 - Adding easy damage with One Click Damage (OCD)
6:02 - How to create openings with booleans with Trowel
7:26 - Enabling booleans with Trowel
8:49 - How to fix ends at openings created with Booleans
10:25 - Noise geometry node modifiers for Bricks/Blocks
12:15 - Random rotation and scale geometry node modifiers