An antique leather-bound book that opens, turns its pages and closes on a loop. Drop your own page images into a folder and the animation adapts to the page count. The cover and spine carry replaceable gold-tooled titles.
Full guide, settings and background: https://sebhirsch.com/rnd/animated-old-book/
Features
• BP_OldBook, a drag-and-drop Blueprint. It waits closed, opens, turns one page per two textures, closes, and repeats.
• Your own pages: put textures in a folder, name them in reading order (Page01, Page02…), and the book scans and sorts them. 10 pages make 5 turns; 40 pages make 20. The page list is saved with the level, so it works in packaged games.
• Two-sided pages: every page shows a different texture on the front and back, and the back reads correctly.
• Replaceable cover and spine artwork: use any title or logo (white on a transparent PNG) on the front cover and on the spine panel between the first two raised bands. The gold is pressed into the leather with a soft edge, partly worn off, and keeps the leather grain.
• Three ready-made covers: The Holy Bible (gold), Moby-■■■■ (silver) and Dracula (gold), each in its own typeface.
• Adjustable tooling: colour, metallic, roughness, relief depth, and wear amount, threshold, contrast and scale.
• Adjustable in the Details panel: start delay, turn duration, pause between turns, pause at end, play rate, play opening/closing, auto play, and an editor preview slider to pose the book.
• Included pages: 10 scanned pages of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1899 edition, chapter I), plus a blank aged-paper texture for empty books.
• Cinematics: three camera sequences (single push-in, five-camera showcase, cover shot) and a high-quality Movie Render Queue preset.
• Lit with Lumen, no baked lighting.
Technical details
• Unreal Engine 5.8, Geometry Cache plugin
• 2 geometry caches (opening/closing, page turn), 1 Blueprint, 1 demo map
• Cover artwork 1536×2048, spine artwork 576×512, each with a relief normal map
• Page textures: Smithsonian Libraries scan, CC0 1.0