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Wrapped Brick Bonds

This shader generates a more detailed brick texture. The side of each brick (stretcher) has a base color, randomly assigned from two colors. The bricks are painted with the base color and are textured randomly using the second color variation. The front of each brick (header) is painted with two different colors allowing for varying patterns of stretchers and headers.

Bonds: These options specify a brick pattern.

Layout: Three brick styles can be selected from this pop up menu: Stretchers Only, Bands, and Alternate.

The Bands and Alternate bond styles generate additional bricks, whose headers are visible. The dimension of the brick ends is determined by the value in the Brick Depth field. The color of the brick headers can be different from the color of their stretchers and is determined by the additional two color fields.

Stretchers: This bond style only generates rows of stretchers, that is bricks whose sides are visible.

Bands: This style consists of alternating rows of stretchers (bricks whose sides are visible) and rows of bricks whose headers are visible.

Alternate: This layout generates rows of bricks that alternate between their stretchers and their headers being visible.

Offset: This option sets the horizontal offset between two rows of bricks. At 50%, the vertical joint of one stretcher brick in the Stretchers Only and Bands layout is located in the center of the stretchers above.

At 100% or 0%, the vertical joints are aligned. In the Alternate layout, the offset determines the horizontal offset between the header bricks of two different rows.

# Of Stretchers: The number entered in this field determines how many times the stretchers will be repeated. When used with Bands, complete rows are repeated.

When used with Alternate, it affects the number of stretchers arranged horizontally. This parameter has no effect on the Stretchers Only style.

Dimensions: This group of options determines the sizes of the bricks and mortar joints through the following parameters: Scale, Length, Height, Depth, and Mortar.