Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Rock it! V2

 I bought an addon a few weeks ago called Rock it! It's a nice procedural rock generator, like Rockify.

I went to see the documentation before giving it a test and discovered that a separate v2 has been released. I was annoyed that it was released as a separate add-on, but it looked much expanded and was relatively cheap, so I bought the new version. If I had read the page more thoroughly, I'd have discovered that you can get it for free if you already have version 1. Ho hum!

So here's an overview of Version 2


Rock Type (1-9)

Choose from the following types of rock materials:


Resolution:

Sets the mesh resolution. Higher means bigger meshes, more detail, more resource-hungry.

 
Scale:1 with 86,000 faces
Scale: 3 with 3,357,000 faces

Extra Shapes

Places outcropping rock onto the underlying mesh.


Adjust the scale and density of these outcroppings.

S:3/D:3                                       S:7/D:4                                         S:4/D:7

Small Detail breaks up the surface of the mesh using finer details.

Small details

As you'd expect, Large Detail applies larger structures on the surface of the base mesh.

Large details

Suzanne Res:5 with 0.1/0.2 scale on small and large detail

Odd mesh. 

Early thoughts


This is a great little tool that has a lot of potential. The library of rock types and parametrics gives you a lot of potential rock types. Getting exactly what you want will require some tinkering.

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Rock it! V2

 I bought an addon a few weeks ago called Rock it! It's a nice procedural rock generator, like Rockify . I went to see the documentatio...