Library-12.jpg

I wanted to make a realistic "old" book for the library...I made one in Chief X17 that was decent, but I wanted to try making one in Sketch-up, then apply colors to each area so I could apply the textures that I made for it earlier. So I made this model in Sketch up then imported into chief, then added the textures and rendered in X17.

Super happy with the realism.

I wanted old, so I selected an old one off my library shelf, but did not realize how old it actually is...this one was printed in 1818. That's back a bit! 

I took pictures of it with my phone from all angles, modified them in photoshop, then brought into Materialize to create normal, ambient occlusion and diffuse maps, then brought those into X17 and set them to stretch to fit.

I followed a youtube tutorial to make the book, here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfkjL2L7scU