Nick Sayce Designs
NS Rock Sculptor Guide Videos
Many designers will need rocks for their scenes and can either spend time sculpting and texturing a single rock or boulder, or they can purchase 3D scanned rocks. Neither of which leaves you with many options when you’re done.
This is where the NS Rock Sculptor steps up to the plate, with the ability to sculpt and create as many rocks as you could ever think of!
Whether you're a beginner or a pro, there's plenty of simple options for both. Either load a preset and use it out of the bag, or make your own!
The addon is 100% procedural, with the ability to first sculpt the rock into a shape you're happy with, with as many cuts and scrapes as you need. Then, when you’re happy with the shape, you have the power and controls to change almost any detail you can think of, whether that’s the colours, the displacement, the bump, all of it.
It’s all in one addon, so access to any control is only a click or two away making it very fast to get a shape and look you’ll be happy with.
Once you’re happy with it, with a few clicks, you can just sculpt as many more as your scene needs; they’ll all be different shapes, but the same rock!
Advanced users can go even further with the ability to finely tune every control and filter using not only their filter controls, but also the colour ramps, giving you an immense amount of control you won’t get anywhere else.
With the addition of a scatter system, you’re able to scatter multiple types of smaller rocks and pebbles, created with the NS Rock Sculptor and then using the additional Geometry controls to decimate them to a much smaller poly-count.
CYCLES & EEVEE
The only limitation with Eevee is the lack of material displacement so you'll only be able to see results with the displace modifier. As Eevee doesn't like complex shaders, the viewport performance will take a slight hit, but mostly, they look almost identical.
UPDATE to v1.1
Hi all!
I've made some additions to the Rock Sculptor listed below. At the bottom is a link to a short update guide video, showing what the new additions do.
- Added Displacement 2 & 3, with mix modes and strength
- Organised the Filter and Colour Ramp menus
- Added Custom Displacement Mask
- Added Roughness 1 / 2
- Added Roughness 2 Colour Ramp
The latest addon and blend file are in the downloads, enjoy!