Dear friends,
which is the best way to create a realistic look of multiple page edges of a book or a magazine?
I did the following but it doesn´t look very realistic:
added a plane, scaled to a din a4 page size, created multiple pages by duplicating the plane and this is the result:
Your problem is that planes don’t have any thickness, so when viewed exactly from the side, they don’t show up.
You could extrude all your planes a little bit to make them visible, but it would probably still look weird.
A good way would be to have 1 block (one of your pages extruded to the total height of the book) and apply a image texture to the faces around it. Something like this.
To add more detail, you could do a couple of real pages on top of the block, and bend them a bit in the corner.
hi ridix, this would be a very complex model to create I guess but yes, I mean this type of paper edges and realism!
@Jack: this looks really awesome! how did you create the pages in the left image? You say, planes are not a good idea but what do you mean with " one page extruded to the total high of the book"? how to create this one page if not with a plane? And did you use any modifier?
Sorry, i meant using JUST planes won’t look good, but you do start from a plane.
In edit mode, select your four corner vertices (or press A) then press E to extrude. Once you’ve done that you can select the side faces and assign them a separate material from the rest.
Here I subdivided the mesh a good few times ( W ) and enabled displace in the texture panel so that the dark lines in the photo make ridges.
