Brick cladding as curtain panel?

[ynemchev]

Hi all, 

I'm trying to create a brick cladding facade similar to the one on Tate modern in London, UK.

As of now, I think of using different curtain panels for each level, since the higher the level, the less bricks ought to be. 

Please see attached images. 

Is it possible to create a single curtain panel with an instance parameter to only control number of bricks?

What do you think is the best way to go in such case?

Thank you in advance.

[constantin.stroescu]

I'd better use a Material - (Metal as based) with Cutouts 

[constantin.stroescu]

Here is a rough example (the masks are made in Photoshop):

• the Cutout mask (you have to change it to negative):

• the Bump Mask:

• the Material settings (for the wall):

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• and the final look:

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

See attached for idea. Maybe this will help you what you want.

[ynemchev]

Honestly, this is what I thought should do the work. For a single "wall", it works flawless.

The difficulty comes when joining two or more "walls", notably corners. It seems every first/last brick in the curtain panel itself will come what might be outside the connecting wall(s).

Avoiding joining walls appears to work. 

Thanks you, again.

[syman2000]

No problem. If you have family building skills, you can tell the end brick to have different width size. I made the brick itself to have parameter for you to manipulate.