Feather help

[merlino3d]

I think that the way to attach geometry to an hair system is with bones.
Just create the bones, create the curve, make it dynamic (in the hair menu) and create a splineIK entering in the tool options leaving selected just "Root on curve". Then select the first bone of the chain, the last one and the curve in the hairSystem(n)OutputCurves.

[dremer]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I think that won't work for me though. It sounds like that will create something like a dynamic arm for example. What I need is to instance feathers onto my hair curves, so that I have a fully feathered bird with dynamics.

I've been looking for solutions, and it seems like shave and a haircut might do this quite easily?

[dremer]

I found a good way of placing geometry using a script that someone on cgtalk suggested

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/c/rvinstancer

It's works amazingly well for placement. Does anyone know a good way to take the feather geometry I place on the bird body, and then add dynamics to it so it reacts like feathers?

Thanks!

[HowardM]

tried ncloth?
wonder if it would get bogged down... hmmm off to test ;)

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