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You could use AnythingGrooves from Digital Carver's Guild for this. AG has an adaptive mesh feature that will alter the mesh according to the texture map or shader. Check out the AnythingGrooves tutorial section. If you have Carrara 3, you can do separate shading domains for the open pages, sides of the pages and book cover in the same Vertex Object. hth, mike