
The page images are of course place holders and could be video (still working on that). If people are interested I'll write up how I approached it and share the source file.
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A new book with a page turn
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A new book with a page turnIt's been nearly a decade
![]() The page images are of course place holders and could be video (still working on that). If people are interested I'll write up how I approached it and share the source file. Intel Core i7 8700 - 16GB DDR4 - 250GB Evo 850 SSD - 3+1 TB HDD - GTX 1080- MSI Z370 Pro - Win10 64 bit - Cannon HV30 (PAL) - Nex5N - GoPro 3 Black
Re: A new book with a page turnHoly cow! That’s sweet. Very nice!
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Re: A new book with a page turnWow!
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Re: A new book with a page turnYou have always done amazing work Chris
![]() Love it when you share how you do something and this really looks great. 1. Thinkpad W530 Laptop, Core i7-3820QM Processor 8M Cache 3.70 GHz, 16 GB DDR3, NVIDIA Quadro K1000M 2GB Memory.
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Re: A new book with a page turnChris, you did a really nice job with that. Looks really good.
Sidd "Nunc coepi" - Now I begin
Re: A new book with a page turnOK - first things first - here's the project file to try out. I've not distributed one of these before so we'll see how it works. If anyone manages to get this going could they let me know please?
Fusion is a node based editor and any external files are read in via a "loader" node that are light green and look like this: If you unzip the project to c:\fusion then it should "just work". If you don't you'll need to go through each of the loaders (there are eight) and re-point them to the correct filenames. Select the loader and the filename will appear in the tools box. If everything is in the right place you should be able to drag the "Render3D1" node to one of the panels above the node graph and you should see the book. If something's missing it (and all the associated nodes) will go red. Click render and it should save a sequence of jpegs to c:\fusion. Edit the save location in the "saver" attached to the "Render3D1" node. Fusion is available from here: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion/ - the free version is fine. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. Intel Core i7 8700 - 16GB DDR4 - 250GB Evo 850 SSD - 3+1 TB HDD - GTX 1080- MSI Z370 Pro - Win10 64 bit - Cannon HV30 (PAL) - Nex5N - GoPro 3 Black
Re: A new book with a page turnI said I'd write a little about how I approached this. I'm pretty sure that this is not optimal in any way as I'm very new to the program but I like the end result.
The first thing was building a book. I looked at various free models but couldn't find one that I could work with. I wanted a book that was nice and curvy since a decently thick book doesn't lay flat when it's opened. To do this I've used the "bender" nodes in Fusion that will take an object and distort it in various ways. There are handled on the tool to affect only part of the object as well. Here's one of my bends. The book pages start a as "cube" - I changed the length of the edges to make a box then applied my first distortion as a sheer to give the look of pages that had slid over each other. I then used the applied two bends in opposite directions to curve the ends the pages. I needed to apply a "transform" between these tow bends to being the end of the page back on to the axis of the bend. if you don't do this you simply undo the bend you just applied. Once I had one set of pages I could take two outputs from that node and transform one to mirror it to make two sets of pages. The advantage here is that if I tweak the bends at all both sets of pages are affected at the same time. The book covers are more "cubes" with the spine having another bend applied to it to curve it inwards. Putting them all together an applying some textures I found online gives the final book model: You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. Intel Core i7 8700 - 16GB DDR4 - 250GB Evo 850 SSD - 3+1 TB HDD - GTX 1080- MSI Z370 Pro - Win10 64 bit - Cannon HV30 (PAL) - Nex5N - GoPro 3 Black
Re: A new book with a page turnFor the page itself we've got another "cube" - just very thin. I did try originally with two image planes back to back but the shadows cast by them were problematic. To make the corner of the page curl I've got another bend applied. However in order to make just the corner curl I rotate the page through 45 degrees first - apply the bend - then rotate it back.
Animation is achieved through keyframes. Almost any parameter can be keyframed so when the book is closed the bends applied to the pages are set to zero and as it opens they are moved to their correct values. Obviously there are quite a lot of interactions so it can be quite fiddly and getting it to look right takes some time. Originally tried to have the left and right pages change to new images of the pages as the page was turned over - but there's something about the scaling that made them jump around. When animating the pages sometimes bits would show through from the back of the page. I increased the number of subdivisions on the surface in the object definitions then things become smoother and the show through dosen't happen. Lastly there's a couple of lights to light the scene. Fusion is not a ray tracer so you have to be specific with the lighting and the renderer you use. Spotlights will cast shadows - and these can be soft if you use the software renderer. Again - some fiddling around is required to get the desired look. You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. Intel Core i7 8700 - 16GB DDR4 - 250GB Evo 850 SSD - 3+1 TB HDD - GTX 1080- MSI Z370 Pro - Win10 64 bit - Cannon HV30 (PAL) - Nex5N - GoPro 3 Black
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