Hi! Can anyone advise on how to model an open book with pages and crushed paper? For the book, do i need to model each page? Having bump textures doesnt look v.good. Any alternatives? tks

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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

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Thanks - can i easily model crushed paper in carrara?

Here's a plug for... modeling from life (lol). I would go to a yard sale or used bookstore and just buy an old book, crush the paper the way you want and look at how it changed the pages. Then begin with a vertex mesh that approximates the book's dimensions and then distort the polys so you have something like the real-life book. You can use the crease tool to get some hard folds going. Depending on whether you want a single page crushed or the whole book crushed (with the whole book, the creases won't be so severe as with a single page). I suggested AnythingGrooves so you could have a way to get the edges of the book uneven w/o having to model each zig-zag of uneven page/signature size. This would reduce the size of the mesh hopefully making rendering a bit faster. mike