Book Animation

Kovac

Hey all. Just a hopefully simple question to ask. I'm making a book for a modification and am curious on the best approach for deformations. As of now I have it like this

I'm now wondering if it'd work better to actually model the book open or closed (as the hand models will open/close it upon weapon switch). I don't know if this is a huge factor on which I do, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Thanks in advance for the help, hope to hear from anyone soon!

pyromania

I would approach this by modeling the book closed. Then it will be easier to create your bone structure, since the pages are still in a straight line. To get the pages to deform like you have now, I'd create a spline IK and use the spline to do my animation. Tugging on one CV of the spline should give you that nice curve for the pages.

Kovac

Excellent, I'll try just that, thanks for the reply!