Librarian is a Blender addon to easily generate a library-like collection of book objects. This was the first Blender plugin I started to develop. In Blender 2.79 I had purchased a very similar plugin, but there was a major API overhaul introduced in version 2.80 and many plugins were left forgotten. I decided to use this opportunity to create an updated version of the plugin I had, as well as learn about how Blender plugins work. Unfortunately this project fell by the wayside and I haven't added all the features I planned (mainly the book cover generation), but the bookshelf generation is functional.
To install Librarian, go to Blender Preferences > Addons > Install and select the .zip file. Files are automatically unzipped by default when downloaded with Safari so try downloading through Firefox or Chrome if you have issues on Mac.
- Different object generation types
- Shelf
- Single shelf
- Vertical stack
- Library
- Grid
- Object
- Shelf
- Control over per book variations such as width and height scaling, rotation, and positioning on the shelf
- Collection of modularized book covers, images, and titles to easily create a large amount of complete book materials that can be automatically applied
- Point the addon to a collection of objects and it will randomly use those objects as the reference object
There are settings to control the columns, rows, gap spacing, shelf sizes, and scale/rotation variations.
Here is an example of what a generated collection might look like.
