mcjTheLibrarian - Generate Low-Poly Bookcases Full of Book Props - 2022 update

mCasual

All These Books Are Belong To You

November 2nd 2022 I added the missing page-pile-edges texture "pages.jpg" to the Low-Poly props zip package

( except the 1501st book of the Chromatographia )

it's 2 very low poly book props with width/height/depth morphs

plus a script to generate rows of books semi-randomly

 Generate Billions Of Books in Daz Studio https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjthelibrarian

 

mCasual

more The Making Of pics

mCasual

the randomly picked book covers are simply all the images residing in a folder of your chosing

i made 55 , they are all 800x512,

it's very easy to make your own

Faeryl Womyn

Thank you very much, this will be very useful.

Imago

Boy! Do you read my mind? It's exactly what I needed for one of my projects!

Thanks a lot!

DigiDotz

Thank you! 

mCasual

Note that the very IKEA'ish bookcases are here -->

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjbookcases

though you could also use this as bookcases

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjslidewall04by10

and for some bookcases with doors you could use this

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts6/mcjdecopanel

many of my props have morphing channels so you can really adapt them

not in the main index yet: https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjminiarmoire

grinch2901

This looks amazing. Thanks for this. Can't wait to try it out.

mCasual

November 2nd 2022 I added the missing page-pile-edges texture "pages.jpg" to the Low-Poly props zip package

lukon100

Yahooo!

I was the beta tester who found the absent pages image problem.

mCasual said:

November 2nd 2022 I added the missing page-pile-edges texture "pages.jpg" to the Low-Poly props zip package

Greymom

Wow - this is cool!  Many thanks!

perlk

Wow...these are awesome. I haven't played with this yet, can you stack them vertically, too? My brain is suddenly filled with Skyrim Apocrypha render ideas...

mCasual

 if i remember well it creates individual books and horizontal stacks of books so you can move and rotate them

there's a softcover poser/daz prop and a hardcover poser/prop which you can load 1 by one

they are morphable props so you can resize them

 

perlk said:

Wow...these are awesome. I haven't played with this yet, can you stack them vertically, too? My brain is suddenly filled with Skyrim Apocrypha render ideas...

richardandtracy

And presumably a linear array bit of software could be used to instance the stacks and create a library so long as the stacks are repeated far enough apart not to see too many similar blocks in the same view. All without the need to sort a single book manually. That'd sound too good to be true to my wife - who works in a library and putting books onto the shelves is one of the annoyances of the job.

Regards,

Richard

mCasual

 hi 

i didn't use it recently,

today with 99 instances of a bookcase filled with books

Daz Studio slows down a lot ( though in wireframe view mode it's workable )

the books themselves are just 6-faces cubes

that's the script i wrote to align them

( only works if the only object in the scene is the object that was instantiated )

 

nodes = Scene.getNodeList()

var master;

n = nodes.length;

list = new Array()

for( i = 0; i < n; i++ )

{

node = nodes[i];

if( node.getObject() )

{

master = node;

break;

}

}


for( i = 0; i < n; i++ )

{

node = nodes[i];

if( !node.getObject() )

{

if( node.getLabel().lower().indexOf( "book" ) >= 0 )

{

list.push( node );

}

}

}

debug( list.length );

v = DzVec3( 0, 0, 100 );

master.setWSPos( v );

bb = master.getWSBoundingBox();


master2 = list.pop()

v2 = DzVec3( 0, 0, 75 );

master2.setWSPos( v2 );

ctl = master2.getYRotControl();

ctl.setValue( 180 )


for( i = 0; i < 25; i++ )

{

master = list.pop();

v.x += 94.6

master.setWSPos( v );

v2.x += 94.6

master2 = list.pop();

master2.setWSPos( v2 );

ctl = master2.getYRotControl();

ctl.setValue( 180 )

}

v = DzVec3( 0, 0, 250 );

v2 = DzVec3( 0, 0, 225 );


for( i = 0; i < 25; i++ )

{

master = list.pop();


master.setWSPos( v );

master2 = list.pop();

master2.setWSPos( v2 );

ctl = master2.getYRotControl();

ctl.setValue( 180 )

v.x += 94.6

v2.x += 94.6

}

richardandtracy said:

And presumably a linear array bit of software could be used to instance the stacks and create a library so long as the stacks are repeated far enough apart not to see too many similar blocks in the same view. All without the need to sort a single book manually. That'd sound too good to be true to my wife - who works in a library and putting books onto the shelves is one of the annoyances of the job.

Regards,

Richard

perlk

mCasual said:

 if i remember well it creates individual books and horizontal stacks of books so you can move and rotate them

there's a softcover poser/daz prop and a hardcover poser/prop which you can load 1 by one

they are morphable props so you can resize them

 

perlk said:

Wow...these are awesome. I haven't played with this yet, can you stack them vertically, too? My brain is suddenly filled with Skyrim Apocrypha render ideas...

 

Sweet - I'll try it out, thanks!!!

perlk

@mCasual - is there a way to change the pages? The script cycles through the books folder but doesn't let you change out the page colors. Or if it does, I can't figure out how. 

Also, I get this error when I try to run it in DS:

I installed all zips at https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjthelibrarian?pli=1  into my Runtime folder in Content in the folder.

perlk

I also realize you have an update to fix this but I can't find the low poly props script. I used https://drive.google.com/file/d/18PzTAVkCUik7XqxtsG8p-UmmlyE_Jav7/view?usp=drive_web but it did not fix the problem.

Also - I just realized that even if I manually fix the pages.jpg file, it doesn't apply that texture anywhere.

perlk

(FYI, I got around the problem by applying pages.jpg manually to all books in the surfaces page, and then re-loading the script and doing apply textures. So it isn't urgent for you to fix.)

perlk

Despite my questions above, this is a really helpful script, thank you! I used it in https://www.deviantart.com/perlk/art/Apocrypha-937496704

mCasual

i'll look into it later today

i didn't use it often after writing this script ( after creating it for one of my scenes ) 

Indeed I see that my Nov 2 2022 doesn't contain the promised pages.jpg

which must be placed according to your error message in Runtime/Textures/mcasual

I attach it below.

But I also see that there were other issues .. so ... this evening

 

perlk said:

Despite my questions above, this is a really helpful script, thank you! I used it in https://www.deviantart.com/perlk/art/Apocrypha-937496704

perlk

Thanks @mCasual! 

I was able to do this render with your bookcases, so fun to create...

richardandtracy

What? Only a few tens of thousands of books? Hardly enough to be worth it. ;) Regards, Richard.

mCasual

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History

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November 18th 2022- I ( really ) added pages.jpg in the Runtime/Textures/mcasual folder in the new package filename: LowPolyBooksRuntimeWithPagesTexture.zip

November 2nd 2022 - i added the missing texture 'pages.jpg' to the Low-Poly Books zip file and posted it in the attachments

September 4th 2018 - Release

mCasual

perlk said:

Thanks @mCasual! 

I was able to do this render with your bookcases, so fun to create...

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History

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November 18th 2022- I ( really ) added pages.jpg in the Runtime/Textures/mcasual folder in the new package filename: LowPolyBooksRuntimeWithPagesTexture.zip

 

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjthelibrarian

so with this missing texture it now works properly?

image:The Surprised Librarian Anaglyph (red-left-eye)

perlk

Thank you! I'll test it out in the next couple of days.