Book Animation

Kovac · Mar 2005

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 · Mar 2005

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 · Mar 2005

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

Book Animation

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