That was a great tip, cman2k, and you are right that the values depends on the texture, did a test on a metal texture with streaks of rust and light/dark from left/right and using your values its pretty much just ends up with a boring plain metal without all the interesting details, but adjusting it to 20-30 value I lost…
Depending on what type of brick it can work really well to sculpt something. Especially if it's more medieval. However you can achieve great results by just using Photoshop if you paint out the seams and generate a base. After that you can super easily extrude and inset some of the bricks. If you after that overlay some…