Book pages animation

[MasonDoran]

use loft on 3 identical splines.....parent them to the spline at the spine of the book....keyfram the rotates on the parent spline....offset the middle spline to make it bend....

[Wbilliam]

I'll try that out see how it works.

Thanks

[Wbilliam]

that method didn't work to well does anyone else have a solution?

Thanks

[SpaceFork]

Why not just make a Nurbs plane, change the pivot point to the appropriate edge, and then animate the plane's rotation for the turning of the page. After that just key some CV's to make it curl .

[Wbilliam]

Spacefork that was what I was looking for I never even knew you could key cv's

Thank you very much,

Bill

[SpaceFork]

Hey, glad I could help. Another note, just to make things easier on yourself; you may want to set up your CV's into quick select sets so that you're always picking the same CV's. You won't want to start setting keys only to find out later that somewhere along the line you forgot one or two or picked up a few extra....that'd just be a pain in the ass.

[Houkah]

Another way is to use 5 vertical curves and parent each curve under the previous one. So curve1 is the root and will rotate the whole page, and each consecutive curve will give you a good curl to the book. This will make things much cleaner in terms of adjusting your splines in the graph editor if you need to adjust your animation. Simply rotate the root curve (1) 180 degrees to get the entire page flipping over then rotate each consecutive curve to get the exact type of curl you want. It's very similar to what 2bytes was saying to do, just with more curves for more control. It depends on if you need to animate a lot of pages or just a few. Animating individual CVs for a lot of pages can get pretty messy after awhile.

[SpaceFork]

Oops, I just assumed you meant one page (don't know why). What Houkah says is very true; if you're going to be doing more than a few pages, keying a whole mess of CV's can become pretty painful pretty fast. If you're going to be doing a bunch of pages (or even just a few) Houkah's method may offer you a much more efficient and cleaner soloution.

:thumbsup:

[Wbilliam]

Houkah, SpaceFork & 2Byts this method is alot cleaner, origionaly when I tried it with splines I was using them horizontaly thats why I wasn't having much luck thanks for all your help, you guys are awsome.

William

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