BookGen Addon Creates Shelfs Full of Books

Bart · April 3, 2014

BookGen is new addon for Blender that allows you to fill shelfs or cupboards with books – fast and easy.

Features:

control width, height, depth, cover thickness and more parameters of the books
use randomization to generate a variety of different books
subsurf-ready
automatic uv-unwrap for texturing

Link

BoogGen Blender Addon

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

12 responses

cabaj

3 April 2014 at 21:04

I was waiting exactly for that ! THANKS very much!
You can add some soft cover in the next version thought :)

Oliver Weissbarth
3 April 2014 at 21:50
I sure this could be improved. But right now you can set spline_curl to 0, textblock_offset=0, hinge_inset = 0 and hinge_width = 0 to create a paperback-like look.
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1. cabaj
  3 April 2014 at 21:55
  yes i notice that:) but I think more about randomize and mix the type. Thanks anyway!!!
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  1. Oliver Weissbarth
    4 April 2014 at 10:13
    Thanks you for your feedback. I might look into that.
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NazzarenoG

3 April 2014 at 21:07

Great! I was missing something like this for my interior scenes! Thank you very much mate!

Josh Strawbridge

3 April 2014 at 21:14

i don’t need it…. but i definitely want it!
this would have made a recent personal project a little bit easier lol

also, typo in the link.

redwaller
4 April 2014 at 00:51
Booger Generator. Yay. Perfect for realistic modeling.
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Spy Black

4 April 2014 at 03:31

Is there a list somewhere of Blender object generators? The thought has never crossed my mind that someone would need something like this, but apparently so. It made me wonder what other kinds of generators there may be. Are there furniture generators? Window, door and/or frame generators? Automotive generators? I remember seeing some tree generators, I’m aware of MakeHuman, I also remember one or two cityscape generators. I can’t even begin to imagine what other types of generators there may be. I think it would be handy to have a central listing of all known generators, and what versions of Blender they may or may not work with.

I know this may seem lazy, but sometimes you just need to throw something together quickly and such resources can come in handy.

Russ
4 April 2014 at 16:48
the official list of addons is here :http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts
but there are some not included scattered around the forums.
archimesh is for windows and doors,
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