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Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
humm.... never had to animate the book opening, we just had it open and the shot was tight enough that we didn't have to track the bulk of the pages. A simple page flip loop, was good enough. Here is one idea I had to control the bulk of the pages. Use 2 morphs you can blend between them to operate the bulk of the pages.… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Mark Dygert, you're really taking this to the next level. They don't want it even that sophisticated at all :) Considering me, I'm heavily annoyed. I was ready to export everything and out of a sudden the keyframing doesn't work the way it used to. I animate the opening of the book to page 1 which is 45 frames alltogether.… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Opps, sorry I missed this when you replied and it slipped off my radar. If you haven't figured it out maybe this will get you rolling again. Your post is a little cryptic too... "move key to frame, have trouble, stuff screwing up, I'm pissed" It's a bit of a mystery as to what's actually wrong. Can you post the files? or… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Yep thats a pretty good script, I've used it but ultimately found it was limiting for what we needed to do. I'd try it out. If it works, great! If not... well get ready for some fun. Cloth, yea I wouldn't even go there. Even if you've worked with cloth before there is so much experimentation needed to get it dialed in that… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Actually I stumbled over this book rigger script a while ago and thought it could be the perfect fit, but since there was not too much documentation about it, all I manged to come up with was animate the first page of the book and that was it. The one page I have to animate, I'm quite satisfied with that. The way Mark… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
I'm sorry for the rough explanation :) I really need to work on my problem describing skills. I thought I posted, that it was meant for realtime use. Looking back at the explanations and understanding the entire problem a tiny bit better, I'm sorry for not providing the much needed information. Basically it will be used in… -
Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Well, I'm supposed to model, texture and animate a book within the following animation range: Open from cover to first page Open from cover to center page Flip from first page to center page Flip from center page to last page Close book from last page There's a styleguide of what look needs to be achieved:… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
You could try this out. http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/book-rigger I had to do this in a previous job. I used a mix of bones and bend modifiers. that maxscript should do it all for you though. I tried cloth and Morphs but both had major disadvantages. Cloth is way to complex and hard to control, and Morphs just… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Thanks Vailias, Option 1 should be the achievable solution. I just can't believe I'm having a similar problem you get when you rig a human knee or ellbow. The edges rotating in a unwanted way so it gets skewed on the outer and inner edges... And I don't think I even understand the entire weighting vertices process. I… -
Re: Animate a Book - HOW TO ?
Could you do it with blend shapes rather than bones? you basically have 4 extreme states: closed, page 1, middle page and last page. If you modelled these 4 and possibly the 4 extreme inbetweens then you could work out 4 formulas for each animation that weights the blend shapes accordingly. Not sure if that's easier than…
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