Brick background plugin?

[alanstancliff]

Does anyone know of a plugin that will enable me to make brick background on an already-colored box in Xara Pro X10? I know Eye Candy 6 does it, but I don't have that and can't find a legitimate copy to purchase. I'd like an effect similar to this graphic:



Regards,
Alan

[Albacore]

Alan why not use Xara's Bitmap Gallery and import one of the brick bitmaps in. Give your background shape a bitmap fill from the fill menu then on the top menu line select the imported fill from the Gallery. Hold Shift down and drag out the Fill nodes to get the size of the brick you want. Click the centre node to make it active and change the fill colour and then do the same on the outer nodes to give the highlight colour of the mortar. You should be able to get nearly the same colour that you have as in your example.

[Gamerprinter]

As Albacore states, and there's no need to use a plug-in to do this (his way, which is way) is much easier.

[gwpriester]

http://www.cgtextures.com/textures.php?t=browse&q=95272 and http://www.cgtextures.com/textures.php?t=browse&q=75 for more free brick textures.

[ss-kalm]

You could also try http://www.sketchuptexture.com/. or more specifically http://www.sketchuptexture.com/p/bricks-section.html

[alanstancliff]

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I'll play around a bit with them and get back with any questions I have after fiddling around a bit.