Book Rig

Description

This is a rig I've been working on lately. It's largely based on this rig by John David Marte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PZOu2477PWs The rig is far from perfect. Still I'm pretty happy with what I've achieved so far and decided to share it with you guys. Feedback is welcome here: [http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?257209-Book-Rig](http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?257209-Book-Rig)

Note: This rig is heavily dependent on drivers and for them to work you must enable Auto Run Python Scripts. To do this go to File>User Preferences and enable the tickbox in the File tab. Then you can reload the file and run the script in the text window. Please be aware that this is a security setting and should be disabled if you don't need it. Otherwise you run the risk of allowing malicious code to be run on your machine. DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Comments (33)

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illmortem almost 14 years ago

Amazing... I've been waiting for something exactly like this to come along! Great work!!

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chaad almost 14 years ago

Great work !

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masluch almost 14 years ago

What about textures? Is it possible to texture the flipping pages? If not it's probably not very useful for comercial work.

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seanmavley over 10 years ago

You can texture the individual pages. @masluch

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PeeDee76 almost 14 years ago

excellent share thanks

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Acki Loon almost 14 years ago

awsome! thanks for the great work!

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Jonnipix almost 14 years ago

Fantastic!!!

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kevin_rocker_lake almost 14 years ago

Bloody cool!

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InsaneXade almost 14 years ago

sweet! I could really use this :D thanks

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pequeno3d almost 14 years ago

Wow, incredible rig! Congratulations dude. ;)

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WIRLOW over 13 years ago

Amazing!! Congratulations. PDTA: O_o o_O

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karo861 over 13 years ago

Amazing!! I'm astonished by the quality and detail... Thank you very much, and congrats :)

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Husam over 13 years ago

Hey guys. Thanks for the encouraging comments. Just in case it isn't clear the video I posted is of the original Maya rig by John David Marte. I just realized some people might get confused thinking the video is a demo of my rig, which is a mere imitation and of a far inferior quality compared to the original.

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sid_ninja almost 13 years ago

Far from perfect? PWHAA

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candolastir about 12 years ago

how do i use it

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candolastir about 12 years ago

please help

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candolastir about 12 years ago

i did everything but when i change the things nothing happens

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Husam about 12 years ago

Hi, For those folks who are having problems with the rig please read the note in the description. Cheers

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ugauga almost 12 years ago

great it's awesome model thanks..

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abascgi about 11 years ago

thats the best... yes...

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Thomandy almost 11 years ago

Great job! Only problem I have is that Im not able to scale the book down.. At the moment its larger than my character.. :)

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veggiet over 10 years ago

This is awesome, I am noticing some issue with pages sticking at random angles.

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GavinZac over 10 years ago

Everything is working great for me. Unfortunately I haven't yet figured out how to use keyframes to animate it through the custom properties.

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Burro about 10 years ago

awesom...

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CosmicPigeon over 9 years ago

Not working for me HELP

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czeky about 9 years ago

Look for an alert in the middle screen, in the top menu, enable and it is working.

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DoodleNotes about 8 years ago

GREAT WORK! Thanks for sharing! :D

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pgsibilo about 8 years ago

thank you so much

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cet77 over 7 years ago

Hi, I've been looking into your book-rig. :) It's really nice. There is only one tiiiiiny little thing tho.. =p Is there any possibility you could get the script/rig working with blender 2.8? I know it's still in alpha, but I really, really would like to use it in an animation I'm working on. :)

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antonclaten over 7 years ago

pelit woyyy

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trixiemay over 7 years ago

Amazing work! Save a ton of rigging time. Thanks for sharing.

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zwrodgers about 7 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to texture pages on your book rig. And I've noticed that your book rig "stretches" pages non-uniformly when they turn. This stretches the texture that's applied to the page. How would you get around this?

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