I'm designing a winding driveway in Sketchup and need a texture for it. I was thinking of using bricks that follow the driveway.
If I used a simple brick texture (e.g. a photo showing a few bricks laid next to one another), the texture would simply be tiled across the surface of the winding driveway and cropped according to the surface's boundaries, in other words, the bricks in the texture wouldn't contour to/or change direction according to the curvature of the winding path.
Thus, I'm thinking I need to create a texture that maps to the entirety of the driveway and shows the bricks the way I want them to be laid.
The only way I know how to do this in Paint .net would be to copy the bricks next to one another at the desired rotation angle such that they follow the winding of the path. Needless to say, this is a rather tedious task.
As such I'm wondering if anybody out there knows how to tackle this task more efficiently.
Thank you!