Comments on: Prototyping a simple feather simulator

By: Stupidvampire

Stupidvampire — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:05:51 +0000

If only someone had done something similar for maya ;_;

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:54:13 +0000

I remember seeing something like this at an XSI 6.5 event in NY last year, it was done by one of the Korean studios for a feature film.. The film has shots in the XSI reel (00:56 sec) but not listed (http://softimage.com/products/xsi/gallery/default.aspx) I was wondering what it was called?

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By: Andrea Interguglielmi

Andrea Interguglielmi — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:52:08 +0000

Hi Chul Min,
I”m sorry, but I don”t know how to help you : )

To you and all the other people who writes me asking how to do a feather simulator with a limited scripting knowledge, here is what I can tell you:

When I started that system, my scripting and math knowledge was very limited as well.
A proper programmer was hired to teach me the stuff I needed to develop the simulator.
Working with him I”ve learned so many things and I”m not affraid to say, I could have never done that stuff without his help.
My advice to you guys is to just start doing it! you”ll learn what you need to learn along the way : )

By: chul min

chul min — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:10:47 +0000

I have been working for korea CG production.
lately I”m making the feathered wings of bird as a 3D charactor. then this feathers should not get tangled.

I”m in difficlties for making the feathers because I don”t know how can use script exectly.
During I serched examples of the feathered wings, I found a excellent script that can solve my problems from ur XSI blog, that’’s ”Simple feder” simulator.

But I know only a few script, i can”t use actively this script.
I need ur help how can i use this script easily to my work.

Thank you for your time. Please help me!!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:25:41 +0000

Dude this is awesome. Other sites or tutes on feather rendering are obscure. Thanks to you my giant turkey will rule with his new fluffy suit! Its also cool for making leafy hoola skirts for pigmys :)

Beers and 3D modelling, what else is there?

By: Jon V.

Jon V. — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:22:22 +0000

Hey, this is some really cool stuff. Wajdy I am also using Maya and thinking about trying to create a feather system and was wondering if you would not mind sharing what you had so far.

By: Wajdy Farhan

Wajdy Farhan — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:34:08 +0000

I am working on a similar system on maya . And I have a couple of questions:

1. Did you make the rotation of the feathers only depend on the controllers or on the faces normal too?
2. Is the motion of the feathers real time (while you”re moving the controller) or do you have to playblast?
3. Is every feather connected with a different expression node ?

Thank you a lot

By: Pascal Achermann

Pascal Achermann — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:58:03 +0000

This is a very nice tutorial, all compliments.

I will join from now here.

i bookmark imeaditly your RSS…

greets

By: Kiaran

Kiaran — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:13:25 +0000

Brilliant stuff. I”ve been tickling my brain about feather solutions and this one certainly seems to be the best solution I”ve seen.