KS_Feather

[Irvn 32]

I want to share a little tool I made for grooming feathers. Its a set of 6 nodes, one base node and 5 modifiers. Super easy to use. Just connect them and.. there you go - you got yourself a pretty little feather. You can layer modifiers as many as you want. Any feedback is super appreciated. 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8v05sgdlo5erh0b/AADSfadqkxgPOBVeaGr2O49Oa?dl=0

[fencer 183]

That's I wanna to call the first post!
Thank for sharing, very nice tool, feather looks really realistic.

Edited May 21, 2017 by fencer

[Irvn 32]

18 minutes ago, fencer said:

That's I wanna to call the first post!
Thank for sharing, very nice tool, feather looks really realistic.

Thx man 

[moedeldiho 20]

Very very nice!!!!

Thanks so much for sharing!

Cheers,

Mo

[Sepu 220]

Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

[Irvn 32]

Cheers guys

[Farmfield 329]

Wow, just wow. A much appreciated share. Are the assets open so we can see how you set this up?

[Irvn 32]

15 minutes ago, Farmfield said:

Wow, just wow. A much appreciated share. Are the assets open so we can see how you set this up?

Yes, everything is open. You can tweak it, or whatever you want

[Farmfield 329]

9 minutes ago, Irvn said:

Yes, everything is open. You can tweak it, or whatever you want

I'm only after your secrets, or rather your non-secrets, hehe... So that makes it an even better share. Greatly appreciated.

[derjcmp 25]

Insane share! Thank you for posting this! 

[adrianr 45]

Not much more to say than wow, thank you, and really great work. 

[dbukovec 22]

Incredible work man! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[Noobini 695]

Thankyou very much...Sergey.

I plucked up the courage to play with this...but couldn't see the quill...so had to do a merge.... Then I thought if I want to see the actual feathers...I have to use a polywire..but couldn't figure out how to make use of the 'tapering' diameter of the feathers...

01) Even tho I can't see the actual geo of the feathers (can see the splines in viewport)..it renders fine...still trying to understand how that works...

02) the quill won't render without a merge, still trying to figure out how it works for the feathers and not quill...

Have I setup this right ?

[nutcracker 0]

really great work!

[king4444 0]

Thanks a lot for sharing!

[clastac 0]

Great work, thanks for sharing!

[LaszloFX 13]

Awesome stuff! Thank you for the share!

[dlekanis 0]

Looks awesome, thank you!

[Irvn 32]

8 hours ago, Noobini said:

Thankyou very much...Sergey.

I plucked up the courage to play with this...but couldn't see the quill...so had to do a merge.... Then I thought if I want to see the actual feathers...I have to use a polywire..but couldn't figure out how to make use of the 'tapering' diameter of the feathers...

01) Even tho I can't see the actual geo of the feathers (can see the splines in viewport)..it renders fine...still trying to understand how that works...

02) the quill won't render without a merge, still trying to figure out how it works for the feathers and not quill...

Have I setup this right ?

 

You setup this absolutely right. And also you can use multiple bends, multiple clumps, multiple turbulences. You can layer things easily. 

First of all, strands and quill are different outputs. It was an intentional choice and if you want to render them together, yep you have to merge them first.

Secondly, to see strands in viewport you need to change some parameters on scene level.

 

[ZeitG 1]

Hi. Thank you for sharing. I did not download them that is why I have a question.

Is this tool only for a single feather? I mean, can I draw for example multiple curves and make a feathers from them?

In this case better to create a subnets and share them in one file, imho.