CGTalk - Approach to shot

michael juice

06-03-2009, 08:37 PM

Ive been trying to get this working in number of ways... but need some help with the approach.

I need to have feathers blowing in the wind quite hard then a gust come along and they blow away.
They need to react like there going to blow off but are holding out...then its to late and they blow off.

i going to keep scratching my head ?!?

Cheesestraws

06-03-2009, 08:49 PM

Using nCloth and nConstraints would probably be the easiest way. Something similar to this (http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/duncan/falling_leaves_with_ncloth_and_paint_effects) tutorial.

michael juice

06-03-2009, 09:09 PM

thanks for the quick response!

tut looks good, although the movies dont play for me :S

as the shots are so short i'm thinking of using a hair system to drive the animation of them just blowing which might work...

However I am having trouble setting it up.
how do i get my geometry to instance itself to each hair curve?

and will the dynamics on the hair curve deform my instanced geometry?

thanks again!

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