For the record, I got some result using woodem.org for deformation, exporting the mesh into POV-Ray with uv coordinates (properly assigning vertex normal in folds and outside of them), and using PDF page (rasterized as PNG) as a texture over the mesh object; I did not play with other objects in the scene (simple wood texture with normal modulation under the paper), this is rendered with antialiasing (but no focal blur and stuff):
This is the full resolution http://i.imgur.com/7qF8LmC.jpg . If we had a library of several of such input files for POV-Ray (mesh with certain type of folds and such, maybe with some pretty objects like pen or lamp), simple script to produce a mockup for any document would be quite easy to do. Or even a video of someone leafing through a book :). It seems this could be done (perhaps more simply) with blender; woodem.org uses FEM membrane elements with detailed contact mechanics, but that's what I know the best and used. Cheers! Vaclav > Hi everybody, > > I was thinking about ways to produce beautiful (photorealistic) > mockups of a flyer produced with scribus -- like a picture which shows > it folded (and partially unfolded) on wooden table, with shadows and > things like that, also with proper glossiness of the paper. Is there > some standard/recommended way to do that? IIRC indesign folks have > something ready-made templates. > > Since I am physicist doing simulations, I tried simulation of thin > membrane (paper-like), with some initial folding, using my code > https://woodem.org . The first result is like this: > https://youtu.be/HLb7UmxmMGk (it is actually only the last frame which > is relevant now -- producing realistic 3d model of somewhat deformed > paper). I thought of continuting this way, adding proper UV > coordinates to mesh nodes, which would make it possible to assign > texture to the paper -- and the texture would be, of course, > rasterized PDF from Scribus :) Then after some tuning of plane > ("table") texture and lighting and whatnot, a nice mockup would be > produced. > > I am interested in hearing comments -- maybe someone has done > something similar before? Perhaps Blender is able to do something like > this in a more integrated way. > > Best, Vaclav > > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170110/c526569f/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: nkehiihjgkbacpmp.png Type: image/png Size: 115330 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170110/c526569f/attachment.png>
