feathers

[leigh]

The best way to do textures is to model the basic shape as a very very very thin poly, and then get a photo of a feather, and project the image through it, along with a good transparency or clip map, which you can also make from the photo. That usually does the trick :thumbsup:

[chieh]

does anybody have a photo of a feather.....

[levin]

do a google search.

funny.

one of my brother's roosters died the other day, and i found a single tail feather.

i was mesmerized at how the color changes when the feather is hit by light at certain angles. really beautiful.

an anistrophic shader (with a map) can be useful ... i think

also the spec color sould be dazzling; the tail i found was black with emerald green specular color.

[Kim Oravecz]

I have a bunch of feathers from my pet Severe Macaw parrot. I save his tail feathers when he molts them. They are basically green with a tad bit of maroon and blue in them. I'd be happy to scan one in for you and send it to you if you'd like. Just let me know!

I also have some hand-painted images of feathers that I did when I did the texturing on my 3D model of my African Grey parrot. But they are not realistic really. More "painterly" looking.

:cool:

Later!

. . . Kim

[MDB101]

Feathers eh :) I have feathers! I choked my chicken to get the feathers..hymmm that didint sound too good... :P

[chieh]

hello Kim Oravecz
could you give me that?i am appreciate,my email-chieh.lee@msa.hinet.net ,thanks!!and thanks everyone's comment

[Kim Oravecz]

Hello Cheih!

I just sent you a couple different feather scans. You should post your image when it's done so we can see it! :)

Later!

. . . Kim

[lildragon]

I have some professional scans of feathers, I had to use some for my Kar model's tribal beads, I'll up them once I get to work..

cheers

[Equinoxx]

tito man . . . i got two things to say . . .

"where in the world is Carmen SanDiego"

and

"The Puppetmasters"

i'll explain when you get back on msn . . . or take the time to pm/email . . .

[chieh]

thanks again ,
and i expect to lildragon's professional scans of feathers,,i think its will help me a lot

[lildragon]

I have more, but this is more than enough to get you started, it's about 3 megs zipped of .tga's with their alpha channels, so placing them anywhere will be a breeze ;)

http://lildragon.cgcommunity.com/temp/feathers.zip

I do have a few more but these should get ya going, I think it's about 10 or so


let me know how they work out for ya

cheers

[chieh]

nice texture!
when i finish i will post my work here. thanks everyone!

[LucentDreams]

those are besutiful textures thanks so much Lildragon. I love the green one (feather12) There are some puffin ones and such, absolutley fantastic. Could be very useful in this months challenge.

[Renderedbrian]

Originally posted by lildragon
I have more, but this is more than enough to get you started, it's about 3 megs zipped of .tga's with their alpha channels, so placing them anywhere will be a breeze ;)

http://lildragon.cgcommunity.com/temp/feathers.zip

I do have a few more but these should get ya going, I think it's about 10 or so


let me know how they work out for ya

cheers

Just to say thanks for putting those up for download! Amazing what you find browsing the cgtalk boards!

regards

-
brian

[zikman]

Could u please put the file again?

The link is broken:(
I need these textures too....


Thanx in advance!

[Dis]

i would be interested too ! :)

[Oren Ben-Tov]

:p

[lildragon]

they're back up guys, enjoy

cheers

[zikman]

Thx a lot my friend for helping us!

Million of thx!

Greetings from Greece!

:thumbsup:

[zikman]

They are Excellent!

Greattttttt Work!

:scream:

[Oren Ben-Tov]

Thanks for the feathers :)

What would be the best way to use them?
cover the bird body with hundreds of small planes and texture them with the fethers.

wouldent they move wierd with the mesh body?, cuz they will be only linked to the bones.

or there is another way?

thanks again

:thumbsup:

[chieh]

this is one chararacter of our pcgame,
this game is similar to Civilization3,so we need many portrait for different country,i learn maya for this reason...
here is the indian leader.i am not satisfity but i don't have time to improve it...
thanks everyone's help

[Kim Oravecz]

How come you are not satisfied with it? I think he looks really good! The headdress looks great!

Now is this going to be in the game or is it for the cinematics? He looks pretty hi res - just wondering.

Really - you should be happy with how he came out! :applause:

Later!

. . . Kim

[skeletor]

I'm maybe a little late but if anyone can link again these textures or anything it would be appreciated. . . thx

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