BookGen | Addon for generating books

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@Color.pixel
You can use a material like this to give each book a random color.

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Can you please give details on the crashes? I would help me alot if you’d start blender from a terminal and use the addon until the crash occurs. Then send me the output in the terminal together with a short description of what you were doing when the crash occurred.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards OIiver

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Thank you for the idea!
4 paint → I did manage to make it old fashion way, (poly by poly) and for the purpose (a website) I quite like it.

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→ for errors: Yes, I will try to remember to run using a terminal → I will google the method.

For now, all I can say is this:
At the beginning of the Blender launch:

  • I delete the cube, make an arc line, transform it into a mesh and make it a row on a shelf (in the image there is a column dividing the row in 2, so take just the half into consideration) - did this like 5-6 times from the begining;
    -Then I use the book generator - makes every time the books upside down even if I Apply Object Transformation to the ARC Shelf;
  • Then I tried pushing many Alignment options to see if they follow the arc shape of the shelf → not really
  • From this point on I did everything the old fashion way → put standard colors and made everything one by one until I finished the SQUARE then added 3 more and mirror the stuff on the other side → then build the rest.

I wish books could be random in **size all 3 axes, and type (hardcover with pocket-size)
I wish (and I would pay for that) for your random colors to become a reality: BUT: choose from a pallet of colors the random stuff → like in my case, a rainbow mood would not go with the PORTUGAL Azulejos theme → like on Microsoft Office themes
I wish (also we should pay for that) that the plugin had text on it divided in 2 areas (1 big area with big text + 1 very small area in the corner with double row small text) like most book.

Is easy to ask I guess, and I envy you for your talent of making this VERY, VERY useful tool.
On my next project, I will use the colouring method you told us.

Thank you for all!

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classic addon

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Hi!

For me, when setting the random value for book height to 0, blender crashes, it can be set to 0.00001 for example with no problem, but 0 nukes blender.

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Hi Botoni,

thanks for reporting. I can reproduce the problem. I created a ticket for it here: https://github.com/oweissbarth/bookGen/issues/13
I will fix it as soon as i find the time. Unfortunately i am currently very busy with my thesis. So it might take while. I’m sorry.

Have a nice day.

Oliver

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I’m busy with my tesis too! :beers:

No problem, for now the workaround is use a very low value and the addon doesn’t crash

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I just released bookGen 1.0!
The new version includes the following changes:

  • Added option for different materials for cover and pages
  • Added ability to add stacks of books
  • Added support for multiple sets of settings
  • Bugfixes

The latest version can be downloaded at https://ow3d.de/bookGen
Here is a quick overview/tutorial:

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Thank you very much!

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Hey, i know it’s an old post, but i find this addon really usefull. I was wondering if you could do this with shelf “recognition”, i was trying to do a Geometry Node for it, but this addon does everything better. I wonder if you could make a way for the addon, to automatically populate shelf you click, with books.
Thx for the amazing addon

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Hi @NightVision,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I have thought about this for a while. Unfortunately this is not as straight forward as it might seem at first glance. As always the devil is in the details.
I have a ticket for this topic here: https://github.com/oweissbarth/bookGen/issues/8
I might look into it if there is enough interest in the future.
I wish you a great weekend.
Oliver

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I’ve just started trying making an addon using Serpens tho, so i’m not an expert on this, but there’s the possibility to add Verts, Edge and Face Variables, Selecting the 2 Edge you want the books to go from/to would be a way of doing it? Bmesh https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bmesh.types.html#custom-data-layer-access , i haven’t looked on how to use them, but i’m sure there’s a way to “tag” 2 edges to use as start and end. I’ll take a look when i’ll have Free Blender Time xD.
Have a good weekend u2 :slight_smile: