Book Rigger
Now Supports the Latest 3ds Max Versions with Improved features!
One-click page turns, ready to animate.
Make believable book and page animations in seconds. Book Rigger builds a full page-turn rig for any page count, gives you intuitive controls for flipping and shuffling, and supports single or double-sided materials. Drag, drop, rig, animate.
What’s new in 3.5
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Compatible with the latest 3ds Max versions, fixing the old crash and freeze issues
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Oldness attribute to add quick per-page noise for a used or vintage look
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Reset to Defaults button to instantly restore clean settings
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More animateable attributes such as Flex Crease Center/Area, Turn Crease Center, Land Crease Center/Area and Flex Angle
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Optimised and easy-to-use expression-based page turn, shuffle and multiply functions.
What it does
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Creates a complete, animator-friendly book rig in one click
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Lets you flip, land, and shuffle pages with simple controls
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Speeds up or slows down turns with a single multiplier
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Assigns single or double-sided materials, including animated diffuse sequences
Key features
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Any page count, built in a single click
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Interactive controls for page curvature, turn, land, and shuffle
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Global speed multiplier for timing tweaks
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Material setup for single or double-sided pages
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Diffuse textures can be driven by animated sequences
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Quality-of-life tools: Oldness attribute and Reset to Defaults
Comments
I agree, amazing script but
I agree, amazing script but I'm having the same problem like everyone else. Can't get double sided material to work?
1. Using 3ds max 2009 64 bit
2. I check dbl side material in the Book Rigger v2.21 panel
3. click on "select front material", put material in the first spot on the material editor, then click the front material button again in the book rigger v2.21 panel
4. I repeat this step again with the "select back mat"
5 I leave image alpha checked.
6. I select "go" from the book rigger panel
7. grab the helper to turn a page
8. When I render the page it only shows the first material on both the front and back on the page.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong?
Also, having problem with the Images sequence part...
I get a "Maxscript rollout handler exception", it says.... Unable to convert: Undefined to type: Interger
What I'm doing is selecting both materials front and back side on the book rigger, clicking on the "select sequence", going to my image files. They are .tga format, I select the first image "pageo1", there are 6 images and are numbered. I select the sequence button.
everything seems ready to roll but I get the exception when I click the go button on the book rigger panel.
Thank you for any help you may give, and thank you for creating this amazing script.
Hi, this is a great
Hi,
this is a great script.
I am going nuts however because I cannot succeed in creating a normal book with double sided pages.
I read all the explanations above but still cannot do it.
I come as far as creating images on one side, but the other side stays black.
What material should you make in the material editor. Should you assign an image sequence in the material of the material editor? Should you click "2 sided" in the material editor?
I am lost.
Please help.
I just checked again and it
I just checked again and it seems well. You have to check double sided material and assign two materials for the front and back pages. If you dont check "double Sided" it just assigns selected material to every page. And if you dont create a two sided material, naturally it doesnt render the back of the pages.
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hi, love the script but i
hi, love the script but i have problems with materials.
it doesnt matter if I checked the 2 sided material from the book rigger tool , it only assigns the front not the back unless i chekced 2 side in the material editor.
when I assign front material is ok but when I assign back material just replace the front material and the back material remains black and doesnt render. Am I doing something wrong? i did all i could imagine even reading help in the book rigger tool. please help me with that
I checked it again with 3ds
I checked it again with 3ds Max 2008, nothing seems wrong. I dont think it would be related with max 2009, since you mentioned no error message. Here is the basic precedure, make sure you follow it.
- make sure you use the latest version (2.21) If you are using vray sp2 use that version.
- after deciding the page options, under the material section click select front material button.
- Material editor will pop up, the first material in the material editor will be the material of your pages. Create a material in here or copy one from other slots to the first slot of the material editor. You can ONLY use standard material, Arch_Design Material (MentalRay) or Vray Material. Dont use, multi, doublesided, blend or any other material. click to the "Click When Done" button from Book Riggers material menu when you are done.
- If you want each page to be double sided, check "Double Sided" and assign another material for the back of each page from "Select Back Mat."
- Click to the "Select Sequence (Dif)" button from Material section of Book Rigger. From here you will assign an image sequence to each page of the book as a diffuse map. your images must be in numerical order (page01.jpg, page02.jpg, page03.jpg ...) select one of them and dont forget to check sequence option in the browser page. You can later define the Alpha source of the selected bitmap from book rigger. (image Alpha, RGB Intensity or None(opaque)) these are the same setting as the default bitmap alpha options.
-Click Go to create the Book Rig.
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Hello, this seems to be a
Hello, this seems to be a very useful tool. But unfortunately I don't succeed in assigning an image sequence. I mean I can tell the script where to find the images but when I render a frame the pages are simply colored and don't have any picture assigned to them. I wanted to use the script for a booklet of a DVD with pictures on the different pages.
What am I doing wrong? I'm running it on 3dsmax 2009.
Mikerad,thats a good
Mikerad,
thats a good question. I never thought that actually.
With current modifiers i think it is not possible. Though it is possible to modify the script to add extra modifiers or changing the properties of current ones. I can work on that when I have some time. thanks.
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I am new in using scripts,
I am new in using scripts, therefore, please, excuse my amateur opinion. Your script fits very well to the situations when pages are turned by a wind or two fingers which grasp a page before its turning. Is it possible to add an option of turning pages by one finger? In this case the right part of a page first slides on the surface of the next page while its left part arches, and only then it turns, following the finger.
Problem solved, it was my
Problem solved, it was my fault. Sorry.
The problem is, after
The problem is, after running the script (MAXScript --> Run Script...) listener doesn't respond (I've opened it and try to run the script under it, but nothing happened). I didn't find the option in keyboard shortcuts after that. So I don't know if I'm doing something wrong.