So I made a perfectly normal book inside Blender...

[@MaxEdge420]

EVEN BETTER news oomfies. UDIMs are now supported, so separate image files for pages are a thing. You still need to specify the number of images inside the material for proper looping.

[@samueljacobson470]

@B M Basically multiple UVs for 1 mesh

[@jtxtee]

Very cool that works! I'm guessing that all the images need to be loaded into memory... can't have a full high resolution book perhaps. Another way is to go back to what you were trying initially, but pick what frames the frame offset. You'll need an image node for every page that could be visible, and drivers that tell what frames to show, based on the progress, and material trickery to make those pages show for the correct image nodes... Also previously, below I suggested a way to compress the (mono spaced) book in a material, with tile references, but only need to do that if all pages need to be visible/loaded into memory...

[@herorgamero7141]

can someone use this for commercial products?

[@somestuff3872]

I would sit through even 12 hours of tutorial to see how you did this

[@ksepastremenos]

"seems kinda straightforward, maybe I could try this" Sees node tree "Mmm, scattering pebbles it is for me then"

[@endig4501]

Unrealistic, the binding didn't immediately start to fall apart because the publisher cheaped out. But for real, this is pretty fantastic.

[@H-L]

For the unique pages: Maybe you can create a single texture with all the pages, send the page index value to shader nodes and manipulate the uv coordinates of the page mesh to fall on different pages of the texture depending on the instance?

[@MaxEdge420]

Good news my oomfies! Multiple pages work now, with the caveat that they're all laid out horizontally on a single image file. You also have to specify the number of pages on that image in the material. Just gotta' cope with this workaround for now. In a perfect world, you'd just be able to use an image sequence.

[@lenaoxton3962]

You could use a mask to separate each page, a grate node for that, is located in the Material editor, under geometry node there is a random per island output that will set a value between 0 and 1 (note you have to be in cycles for it to work) for each page you can use that in a color ramp that has a Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channels that will give you a black and white solid mask when used with a separate RGB node for random pages, they will repeat doing it this way from page to page but I agree using an image sequence would be nice to pick a frame for each page but until that day comes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ all and all this is an amazing book, 10/10 would read again!!!

[@sistemafuturo]

Hey Max, would it be possible to achieve some other results via maybe storing vertex colors per island or something of the likes by using the Image Texture node within geonodes which has a frame input?

[@nekojin1164]

what if i use this in unity game engine ? will it worj lol

[@springtrapthebuilder4918]

do you have a tutorial for that?

[@Braddockggb]

I can't seem to use more than 9 pages. Sorry to be a bother, but where's the setting for that in Materials?

[@indrtift5205]

You helped me to understand simple fact, I'm trash in blender...

[@hugo54758]

Wait it's free?! That's insane, thank you so much!

[@ShuyaTheDark]

I don't know when geometry nodes were introduced but I see people are having a TON of fun with them

[@mardybum6383]

Fun

[@standardLit]

Fun, yup

[@atmnwntr]

no unique pages = looking at that masterpiece over and over again

[@Vidyut_Gore]

This is insanely clever. Loved it! I'm mostly learning blender because I can't afford to hire an artist to create promotions for my book and have an artistic brain. This... wow. I can't pretend to understand geometry nodes, but going through the stuff you have in the file... you might as well draw a small district road map there and say it will all add up to make the book work. Mind boggling. Brilliant.

[@jeffg4686]

Yowsers, that's one hell of a node setup. Super nice result. Another good one would be newspaper maker. Only minor thing I'd change is the pages seem like they could have a slight amount of "thickness" added to them (even though they're paper thin oc).

[@robwarner1858]

An amazing piece of work. You are some kind of genius. I downloaded, tried it out then went back and paid for it. Never seen any book opening animation as brilliant as this. Added all my own pages and although I had trouble figuring out how to update the UDIM to start with, as soon as I figured it out, all the pages appeared. Thanks so much.

[@cesarricointitucion]

hello, can you explain me how to make all the pages appear? It just show me one image, thank you

[@catchingsky334]

Yes Tutorial! Looks awesome - you hit all the points. My only suggestions would be the individual page images for sure. Also, some controls to edit the spine thinner and the bend so it would be great for bound magazines as well. Lastly the page turns look great but would be really nice to have a control to put a little curl on the top or bottom corner as well like its being turned by hand.

[@haksell5462]

Bro this is insane. Geometry nodes have always been hard to work with for me. Congrats for making this.

[@enigmawstudios4130]

Crazy how fascinating it is to be able to make something like a book in Blender. Normal folks will never know how complicated it is lol

[@SilentTombMusic]

Honestly thats hella impressive! good job dude

[@PinccART]

This is what I subscribed for, thank you for delivering

[@jadenrobinson9781]

From what I hear about clothe simulations this is a VERY BG DEAL.

[@LofiAnimator88]

I know that I am a year late but you have really good tutorials and node set ups. I can tell that you have programming experience due to the neatness of your nodes.

[@LividBunny]

Now we just need a game Dev making a School Sim game where you're a diligent student that is studying to be the most evil book worm ever.

[@nickyreigns254]

This is truly perfect. When I grow up, I wanna make such insane stuff

[@wedroolonpeoplerecordswedo8971]

I have been looking for THIS for a looong time for a big project. MaxEdge my saviour. Take my money.

[@keYserSOze2008]

That's brilliant, I can't believe such a mundane animation could be so beautiful! 😍

[@Noxafurry]

Dude I adore your sense of humor! Keep going! :)

[@brokenstudiotv]

This is incredible! Is there a way to set the Pages to Shade Smooth? I'm having to increase the Page Resolution a lot in order to not see the individual faces for close-up shots which is skyrocketing my render times. EDIT: I Added a "SET SHADE SMOOTH" node at the end of the Geo Nodes tree and that solved the issue.

[@jakedanielscg]

Hey man i tried to put "Set Shade Smooth" but i doesn't work. Can you let me know how you do this? Many thanks!

[@RockMedved]

@@jakedanielscg Disable the BevelCoverNgon modifier that's underneath the geo nodes modifier. I have no idea what it does besides completely tank the performance, but set shade smooth node starts working w/ this modifier inactive

[@jakedanielscg]

@@RockMedved Thanks man, i will try to do it!

[@captainawsomeface]

Set shade smooth node tip worked thanks dawg

[@GravityRender]

why this works only untill page .1009? How shoud I continue fo bigger numbers? Nothing seems to properly works. Can I have some examples? Thanks :)

[@Braddockggb]

Did you ever manage to figure this out?

[@GravityRender]

I didn't. I then used After Effects@@Braddockggb

[@mileshodge3477]

​@Braddockggb you have to go into the geonodes and you will see a node in pink or red. It will have a number. Increase that numer to how many pages you wanna use

[@fracteller]

You're an actual mad scientist. Thank you!

[@KarthikPrakash-j3e]

You are a true genius.

[@user-fs2ze]

Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this! Wonderful job.

[@hakanviajando]

You know you gotta make the tutorial. It looks amazing.

[@aditigupta7081]

The truth is that the unknown scares all of us, but we just have to practice so we can get well with the software.

[@TPLS2]

With the power of stems I have conquered my enemies stands.

[@mesbahfarsi]

When I open the project, the book is not inside

[@dmaaq2991]

How I can move the sheets ?

[@Shpilberg]

Awesome, Dude!!!!

[@PixelUrge]

Is there a way to get the UVs to export correctly? When I export to either alembic or fbx the UVs are not written.

[@rahulpaul.3d]

This man is too powerful

[@sander-wit]

You're a mad man, insane job dude.

[@savagegamez_usa]

I got this file. love it. is there a way to have the cover also be paper and not hardcover?

[@Gordon_Workshop]

Incredible. I'll just hold your beer

[@resquar3d534]

Downloaded and the nodes? wohhhh! impressive! time to study hard for me now lol ... salute you for a great work!

[@brandonhernandez1111]

bruh, it's free just like that no way

[@JonasHeuter-b7b]

Great video & model but I still don’t quite get how you can add the different textures to the pages Can someone who understood that please reply Thanks

[@JonasHeuter-b7b]

Oh I found it out myself

[@liemeur957]

​@@JonasHeuter-b7bwhat way did you use? 😅

[@ian.lucreaza]

@@JonasHeuter-b7b maybe you could share? cant add nothing under or over the cover

[@GangstaPichu]

Make a 3h tutorial for this. *Holds gun* :)

[@ELStalky]

Thought about doing something like this as well, but it's one of those things you just make for the heck of it, not because anyone actually needs it. For the individual pages you could probably use a giant sprite sheet and UV mapping, right?

[@MaxEdge420]

Yes, but I just really wanted individual textures. Also, only made it because I needed it for 7 seconds of my next movie, but then started adding more and more stuff to it, until I thought it was worth sharing.

[@obeycelestia]

@@MaxEdge420 Annoying that there's not a pluggable socket for the frames in an image sequence (for now, at least?)-- could we use drivers to rig up the sequence frame to the page index and make a flip book?

[@keYserSOze2008]

It could be adapted and used in motion graphics for magazine and book advertising. Not to mention introductions for fairytale content.

[@PhotiniByDesign]

Come on, @MaxEdge420 you know this world needs this 3h tutorial right!

[@BjarneKort]

Soo... I just finished the Donut tutorial... any chance someone can explain to someone on this level how to bevel the cover edges? Would like them in a specific shape, but don't get those notes written in GeoNodes about that... don't even get why I can't select the meshes manually... It seems I stumbled onto the wrong floor, should be 9000 levels below this

[@liemeur957]

Did you ever find out how to corner/round the edges of the book? I'm also curious about this

[@kangsan2014]

God, those were a lot of nodes. I bet that took many days.

[@OleeveeyaChakraborty]

I literally fainted after seeing the geometry nodes... But, great job!

[@o1ecypher]

how about adding a video and making the video appear in the book as frames ????

[@JanWischnat]

Just bought it on gumroad. Excellent work! Thank you.

[@super_lito]

How can I give thickness to the pages? "Page Width" just gives you more space between the pages but no volume

[@PlanetXtreme]

Omg u were the one who made this? AND the moth movie? Ur a frikin legend mate

[@septuleptum]

Will you join Houdini gang someday?

[@alvinryu5979]

Thank you for sharing the project file! I've encountered an issue during rendering: a strip of the book cover texture remains visible in the middle of the left page throughout the animation, even as the pages are flipping. I've tested this in both Blender versions 3.6 and 4.2, and the glitch persists in both. Specifically, it appears as a vertical strip of the leather cover texture overlapping the page content. This occurs in the final render but isn't visible in the viewport animation. I've checked the material assignments and UV mapping, but couldn't identify the cause. Has anyone else experienced this issue or have suggestions for troubleshooting? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

[@alvinryu5979]

I tried again and found A strip of the book cover texture appears in the middle of what should be the first page, even before any animation or page-flipping occurs.

[@TheColinStein]

This is amazing! I love reading your organization, it's fun as I explore. I'm having trouble figuring out the X size for the pages. Do you know how to fix it?

[@JuttiFire]

ow my holy fking god... ur at another anotherrrr level

[@sabitastisch9228]

This is close to magic in my humble opinion o.O

[@eliaspierre6303]

This is the best geonodes book I've found, please do a tutorial on it!

[@viddesigner980]

if you can't make a 3h tutorial, pls just showcase us how it's done and the idea of how it works. That'd be very useful :)

[@bitherhood]

how i can subdivide paper because the resolution tap dosen't effect

[@grande1900]

0:30 he lookin like a flight journal

[@pgsibilo]

This looks crazy amazing... Let me try this out first MaxEdge 😁

[@Qwerdon5867]

Hey bro, can you help me out? I'm trying to insert a video into the page textures, I've got it working, but I want the video to start from page 4, how can I do it?

[@Legnog822]

i KNEW this was possible but i just didn't know quite how to do it! glad i didn't try because judging by that node set up it was not very easy!

[@mind_glowing]

This is pretty insane!

[@bossukek5350]

Hi, im new in blender and i dont really understand the node mechanism thing. Cam anyone please help me with how to change the images of the book? Thanks

[@solomonidowu904]

Hello Max. I just used this awesome provision, thank you! However I'm finding it difficult to adjust the UVs of the cover page. Any tips?

[@astuces-01]

Well, for me it does not work at all. The timeline is not accessible, and even when hitting the spacebar the animation does not start. I only have a closed book... Any idea why?

[@AnsonSavage]

Awesome work! Any restrictions on how we use it?

[@moriyamakyon1067]

time to place this thing in the corner of room on render

[@geromekhan3647]

you are insane maaan

[@jBakers]

Amazing book! Is there a way to export, or bake the animation with textures to bring it into UE5?

[@CRogers]

Purchased! Thanks, this is awesome!

[@Puer0000]

Hey, is there a way to subdivide the cover for making a soft cover? I'm trying to use bend modifier or displacement on the cover and it just makes the book break :(

[@lostGash]

my jaw was on the floor for the entire video

[@mileshodge3477]

Wish I knew about this before I spent 25 bucks on the one the market offers limites to 100 pages. Dangit

[@BobbyJ529]

3h tutorial! LESGO!!

[@kreion]

Can someone please tell me how to make the pages appear smooth shaded? normally I would just apply Shade Smooth but this being made with geo nodes I have no idea how to do it. Thanks!

[@FinalComp]

I was having the same problem, even tried to modify the geometry node tree inserting the set shade smooth node and trying other hacks, but I couldn't figure out a way to make it look smooth. It is a pitty, such a great project and file with this limitation that make it useless for close up shot. Maybe the author with all his knowledge can fix it.

[@Olstman]

Oh My God... Thats insane....

[@jorari71]

Hello. I rotated with Gimp my 54 images for the pages but I don't know why it shows the same image on all the pages, what can I do? Please, help me.

[@javierpaternina]

increible este libro hecho con puro geometry nodes! te felicito!

[@ZakharKuzmin]

Hi, first of all thanks for the great book rig, but also I have a question do you know if it is possible to export UV from geonodes in this project?It would really help if you could help me with this

[@teamEP789]

You re insane! amazing.

[@FinalComp]

Did anyone figure out how to have the pages shaded smooth?

[@jtxtee]

Very cool, so for the pages, sprite sheet as someone else mentioned and it sounded like you got working, if you just needed mono spaced text, it would be possible to encode the book into a pixel for every character on the page, so for a page with 80 characters per line and 60 rows, each page just needs 80x60 for each tile in a sprite sheet... and each of those pixels references a font sprite sheet to pick a character...

[@timka2020]

Thanks a lot for a cool project! I can't figure out how to reduce the stroking of this book? Could you explain? Shade smooth dont work or i dont understande how work it

[@ImPDK]

The poly count is surprisingly low. Pretty sure this is game ready if your game is about a book with one repeating page

[@liemeur957]

This is amazing!! Are you able to round the corners of the book cover/pages? Or is it only sharp edges?

[@liemeur957]

Or perhaps achieve different pages shapes? Like an oval egg book 🥚🐣

[@Doug_Fany]

I'm gonna "bookmark" this video for later

[@bearbones7913]

This book was made by a God! How did you get the pages to stick to the spine?

[@Gadgetive]

can you differently applied texture per pages?

[@McHaven07]

i can't do any geo node stuff, crashes EVERY time, and i have a pretty beefy pc. anyone tell me what i should focus on to get better performance?

[@bluedeskfan2754]

This is a great model, thanks so much for sharing. I'm a bit of newbie, so I can't get more then 9 images to loop with the page node. Can it work with more than that? Thanks again.

[@nick_stone_lab]

Man! thanks a LOT! You was manage a great work! You are just save my day!

[@cgxembi4729]

Thanks a lot😁 But I have a problem, I can't render my project with renderfarm named sheepit there is error: Warning, files not found://../Book/Page..png please help🙏

[@MohannadFannan]

Thanks for the rig, man, but i can't add image sequence or video clip as textures and that's disappointing, but thanks for sharing the rig dude AND I HOPE U ADD THIS TO THE RIG UPDATE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Володимир-ш5э]

Бро, у тебе вийшло це зробити? Бо я зіткнувся з такою ж проблемою, і намагаюся вирішити

[@MohannadFannan]

@@Володимир-ш5э no bro, i couldn't do it with this rig, i had to do the page flips manually 🙂

[@Admin-oe8zj]

that very coll i mean that.... but how i can move the page like the video because i cant do that😅

[@bibinshree3958]

Pls make a 3h Tutorial on this. I'm gonna watch it.

[@themaddove9687]

How come when I open it in Blender (Im using the 3.2 version) I dont see any book?