Need Help for Bird Wings

JacqueChoi

Anyone know any good resources for making deformable bird wings (with feathers).

I'm particularly interested on how the rig is setup, and leaning more towards making this for a real-time environment (no Harry Potter hyppogryphs with procedural feather generators).

Also, does anyone know any good games that have good birds as a reference?

Eric Chadwick

Haven't seen any great birds in rt, though I do recall an interesting thread about procedural feather animation on CGTalk (I think, might have been in the 3ds max section).

You want individual feathers? Or would it been enough to use a couple layers of 1-bit alpha'd planes?

Wells

I've made anatomically correct wings using overlapping alpha planes for most of the feathers. It was a year or two ago, so its probably pretty messy. each wing came in at about 500 tris.

Your best bet is to start gathering all the anatomical reference from real-life that you can, and then go about modeling it like you would any other limb.

arshlevon

here is a pretty good setup, go down to the
sp_playblast.mpg
sp_shaded.jpg
sp_wing.mpg <----this one is the most informative
sp_wires.jpg
sparrow_screen.jpg
and click on them

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/faq.htm