cyberhirsch - Old Book

Animated Old Book - Customizable 3D Asset

Bring your stories to life with this atmospheric, animated 3D old book. Features a smooth animation sequence showing the book opening and the first two pages turning.

  • High-Quality Animation: Pre-baked geometry cache for realistic deformation and easy implementation.

  • Loopable: Second part of the animation can easily be looped.

  • Fully Customizable: Blank cover and individual page textures allow you to easily add your own titles, text, or images.

  • Detailed Textures: Includes crisp 4K textures for a close-up ready look.

Perfect for game props, cinematic sequences, interactive displays, and more!

Watch the animation before you buy: https://youtu.be/0Eo4tVJ5vDU

Included Files:

Unreal Engine Asset

Blender

USD

Hi @cyberhirsch,

I bought this asset, but when I change the textures in the page materials to my own custom textures - which have images and text on them - the backside of each page is simply the mirror of the front side, and some of the pages are rotated 180 degrees so they appear upside down.

I did not expect this, given that your description states that we can add our own titles, text and images to the pages.

I had to create my own parent material that allowed me to specify a different front-side and back-side texture for each page, and supported mirroring and rotation for the pages that needed it…

However, the last visible page in your page flip animation uses the same material as the first page - which, even if my users didn’t notice the duplicate page, unfortunately it’s also upside down, so it is impossible to disguise.

I can’t fix this because it seems the last page in your geometry cache is referring to the same material as the first page, with rotated UVs, so I can’t use any material tricks to overcome this issue.

EDIT: I managed to fix the last page problem, although I still needed to write a custom material with back/front page support and rotation and flipping in order to use all the pages as needed. Unless I am somehow doing something wrong (I simply replaced the textures in your materials with my own, but they were mirrored/rotated and the front/back side of the pages were the same image except mirrored).

Do you have a version where each of the pages has correct UVs so they are all facing upright, and where the back of each page isn’t just a mirror image of the front? Or if there’s something I’m missing, please let me know.

Thank you!
Dale