Feathers

[Sacman]

I was playing around with feathers and sprite emitters for something I am working on and thought this was pretty sweet. So I am posting it.

 

I could not get the emitter itself to not render. It is turned off and does not show in the Chor but no matter how I rendered it, it would always be there.

 

Oh well

Feathers.mov

[Stuart Rogers]

I could not get the emitter itself to not render. It is turned off and does not show in the Chor but no matter how I rendered it, it would always be there.

The visibility control in the chor is a convenience to reduce clutter while you're working in the chor. Have you tried setting the emitter's transparency to 100% in its surface properties?

[Ilidrake]

Exactly how do you do the feathers? Is it a Targa image applied to a patch or particle hair emitter? Nice effect

[Sacman]

Gotcha on the Transparency. I didn't put that together.

 

I did a google and yahoo image search for feathers. I got one image from one and one from the other.

 

I cleaned them up in Photoshop to make sure that the background was true black for the transparency and saved them out as targas.

 

I used a sprite emitter using three images (one each of the two I found and one of them rotated 90 degrees to ensure some variance in the rotation beyond the natural variance.)

 

The rest is merely (and I say this half jokingly since I only just learned how to adjust the advanced emitter properties over time...thanks David) adjusting the opacity and emission rate over time.

 

It was a nice effect.

 

Thanks,

 

Wade