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- andrewn@gladstone.uoregon.edu (Andrew Jay Kirkpatrick) wrote:
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- > I would immensely and forever be in debt to anyone who could send
- > me a LW object of a book in whatever stage of construction. I plan
- > to use the 3D object in an educational video animation.
- > I could spend hours and hours trying to create the object myself;
- > however I feel begging might be faster than my modeling abilities.
- > I hope to add bones to the object, allowing the book to be opened and
- > closed, and to add a personalized cover texture with book title, etc.
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- You can model the book as fast as you could download it. You should
- have a book object already, from the Toaster supplied directories,
- unless you're working in a stand alone version (not sure what objects
- come with that just yet). If not, you can model by this:
- Flat rectangle in modeler. Bevel the edges. Mirror it.
- Make a similar rectangle,
- but much more narrow for the spine... then bend that. Build
- the pages, as a thick box, just a bit smaller than the cover,
- and move the outer edge points in to give the paper a slant (you
- know, like an open book). Save this as book open1.
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- Then rotate the cover over, straighten out the edges
- of the paper, and this is bood open2. Morph between the two in
- layout. To surface the pages, place a bump map on the sides, stretched
- out along the z, provided you created it in that direction. Surface
- the cover as you'd like... and there you go.
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- =Dan Ablan
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