Script to create individual plane with mapped texture for each image in directory

Question

Sorry if the title is unclear, I couldn't think how else to word it.
What I'm looking to do is create a book with turning pages, where each page uses an image from a specified directory, so the ideal end output would create a plane for each item in the folder and assign the next image sequentially to that plane.
First question on here and not too familiar with Python, so any help/input would be much appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

Looping across the list of filenames using this answer to create individual planes like so;

import bpy
import os

def create_page(filename, page_num):
    bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_plane_add(size=2, enter_editmode=False, align='WORLD', location=(0, 0, 0), scale=(1, 1, 1))
    plane_object = bpy.context.view_layer.objects.active
    plane_object.name = f"page-{page_num}"

    page_material = bpy.data.materials.new(name='page-material-{page_number}')
    page_material.use_nodes = True

    principled_bsdf_node = page_material.node_tree.nodes["Principled BSDF"]
    image_texture_node = page_material.node_tree.nodes.new('ShaderNodeTexImage')
    image_texture_node.image = bpy.data.images.load(filename)

    page_material.node_tree.links.new(principled_bsdf_node.inputs['Base Color'], image_texture_node.outputs['Color'])

    # Assign it to object
    if plane_object.data.materials:
        plane_object.data.materials[0] = page_material
    else:
        plane_object.data.materials.append(page_material)

    material_output_node = page_material.node_tree.nodes.get('Material Output')

# Replace <SPECIFIED DIRECTORY> with location of image files
image_file_directory = <SPECIFIED DIRECTORY>
for page_num, image_file_name in enumerate(os.listdir(image_file_directory)):
    # It may be necessary to parse the filenames if there are files in the specified
    # directory which are not images or should be otherwise excluded
    create_page(image_file_name, page_num)