Modelling : Wings

[Clanger]

A good while back I saw a tutorial on creating a birds wing (sorry so long ago I've no idea where now)
But the key feature was to use a lot of thin rectangular 2 sided plains and put bitmaps of real feathers with alpha onto them. The result was very good.
It's a popular technique for doing long hair, works well

[Aldaryn]

So you want to create "anime-like" wings, just because the size:
Anime figures, especially "warrior" types can bee seen with pretty big wings, almost too big... But you already know that, I think...

So, a good way would be to create a wing like that is to look up an anatomy studie on birds, than create the base skeleteal and muscular structure of the wing...
When you're done, you could create one really detailed feather, with poly modelling, or create the vein of the feather, and use, e.g. Shag:hair to create the rest of it. (I think, Shag would be able to handle this type o' problem, to save lots' o time, even shading could be done properly)
So, if you've got one feather, you could instance it all the way, to create the bigger feathers of the wing, the ones witch will appera a bit big on the rendering, to be ceated by just texturing...
Now turning to the smaller feathers, you should render the bigger feather from front, and use it as an alpha source, and specular mask, and the Z channel as a bump...
I thing now you've got it,
From now on it's like Clanger wrote it...

Modelling one feather can be useful, if you do it right, you've got one texture source (with perfect bump!) without resolution limits.

Good luck!

[DJ Scorchio]

Thanks a lot, thats a real help :) It will be a little while before i start on them, as ive gotto finish a few other things first, but ill post up the WIP as soon as i have!

Just so you know, im going for something a bit like these -
http://www.angelicvoice.net/~asword/images/artbook/lostangel/lostangel26.jpg
http://www.angelicvoice.net/~asword/images/artbook/lostangel/lapochette.jpg
Shes in black leather, and theres going to be chains and stuff as well, so it should be quite a challenge...
Anyways, thanks again!

[FabioMSilva]

anime rulez:D

[ThE-BirD]

Here's a wing set up tutorial you might be able to adapt...

http://www.jackals-forge.com/tutor/tut1.html

Goodluck;)

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