by liuran·Motion Graphics
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Riggedbooks ranks 170 on superhive and ships with four example files, Old Book, Soft Book, Magazine, and Company Portfolio, alongside a demo video and an online FAQ.
Riggedbooks is a Blender add-on for building rigged books ready for page-flip animation. It offers two cover types, hard cover and soft cover, and each comes with page presets ranging from 10 up to 100 pages. Page turning is handled without interleaving problems.
Book geometry is adjustable through parameters for the cover's height, width, and length, its thickness and spine curvature, and the pages' bending shape. Randomizing the page control strength produces an uneven page effect, and an arch control panel adjusts how the pages relax on both sides in the open state. Materials for the cover and pages stay simple, with control over the cover's front, spine, back, rim, and inner surfaces and separate front and back image nodes per page. Textures can be batch replaced in one click, and a rough edge effect adds edge strength, width, roughness, and detail controls.
Each cover and page carries its own keyframes for adjusting the flip animation, and the animated state can be converted into a static mesh. Animation exports as FBX to software such as Unity, C4D, Maya, and Max, or as an OBJ sequence to C4D or E3D. Four example files and a demo video are included.
Riggedbooks is best for blender artists creating page-flip book and magazine animations who want rigged geometry with adjustable covers, pages, and materials.
Riggedbooks is completely free to download and use.
Riggedbooks supports creating books with a maximum of 100 pages, which works out to a maximum of 200p in total. If you need larger books with 300, 500, or 1000 pages, it may not fit your needs. For typical book counts, both cover types offer page presets at 10P, 20P, 30P, 40P, 50P, 60P, 80P, and 100P, so you can start from a preset close to the length you want and adjust from there.
Riggedbooks can export book animation as FBX to other 3D applications, including Unity, C4D, Maya, and Max. It can also export an OBJ sequence for use in C4D or E3D. In addition, the book's animation state can be converted into a static mesh within Blender. Between these options you can move a finished flip animation out of Blender or bake it down for lighter downstream use.
Riggedbooks includes a one-click option to turn the book's animation state into a static mesh. Because each cover and each page carries its own keyframes, you can position the flip animation as you like and then bake that state into a fixed mesh. This is useful when you want a specific pose of the open or turning book without keeping the full rig active.
Riggedbooks is listed as free in this catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, so check the developer's page for the current details before you rely on it for a project. The add-on ships with four example files covering an old book, a soft book, a magazine, and a company portfolio, plus a demo video and an online FAQ to help you get started.
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