CGTalk - feather texturing

butCherHeLL

04-13-2003, 04:47 PM

yeah. I modeled a bird as well as dirk's tutorial .
but thats nevermind without a feather texturing.
so anyone know how to texture a poly face as it looks like a bird feather ?:wavey:

zkanal

04-14-2003, 02:42 PM

Yes ,scan a real feather on a flatbed scanner.
Then make transparency-maps for the feather from the same picture by playing with brightness/contrast in photoshop.
Don't forget to use raytrace shadows in maya if you want correct shadows.

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