Hi,
I’m modeling a bird, and I want to make it fly and have a natural behavior like opening out his wings ,but I want to decide how to model this parts early depending on how the wings rig (including feathers)will work?
My idea is to model poly feathers and setup a rig with the wings to make the wohle working toghether but I’m not sure this is the best approch;
Give me some help and ideas.
Think you.

lekbabra 03 February 2009 08:48 AM

Hi,
I’m modeling a bird, and I want to make it fly and have a natural behavior like opening out his wings ,but I want to decide how to model this parts early depending on how the wings rig (including feathers)will work?
My idea is to model poly feathers and setup a rig with the wings to make the wohle working toghether but I’m not sure this is the best approch;
Give me some help and ideas.
Think you.

Making a rig all depends on the animation you intend to do. Making a rig that does everything… is complicated and most of the time useless because you don’t even use all the features.

Tell us what are the main points of your animation, then we can design a rig for it.

Thank you,
I’want to have enough control to make the bird opening his wings and unfolds his feathers. In a rest pose wings should be back and lay to the body,the important thing to deal with is to make the feathers unfold and follow the movement of the wings.

I would use a simple set driven key with a couple of key position.

Or if you feel up to it… expressions.

Hi,
I want to set-up a rig for a wing with feathers folding and unfolding without geometry intersection,and have the whole system working together smoothly;
the other question is how to get the feather effect in the body (fur or hear?) .
Thinks.
http://www.3dexpression.com

Not many ‘tutorials’ out there for this type of thing, here’s the most complete walk-thru I know of:
http://www.jackals-forge.com/tutor/tut1.html

There’s also a good thread below from a guy that did a bird rig (in Lightwave) that may have some applicable information:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/show...9&perpage=10&pagenumber=1

n8skow [FA]

HELP!
Ehm .. I’m also work on a wing rig. I working with Maya 8.5 and I’m searching for a kind of tool, I knows from 3D Studio Max. To let the feathertip swing I search for the Assign Controller ‘Spring’ from Max or something simular.
I knows that the ‘Jiggle’ -tool does that in Maya but its only useable on geometry and it also have only an effect on the Cluster of the geometry and not on the pivot.
My thought is it to let the tip of the feather aim with a constraint to a controller who has this springthing on it.

Does anyone has an idea?
Thanks

I’ve tried to create a spring with ‘Create Soft Body’. But the problem is, when I creat that with ‘Duplicate, make copy soft’ and ‘Make non-soft a goal’ there is the spring effect, but I cannot constraint anything on it. Cause the center of the Soft Body is static and there is no other controller where I can link anything.

Sorry is there nobody out there that has answers to the questions above?? I also have similar questions.. but what’s the point of posting wen most of the questions here have not been answered?? Or are there no Autodesk experts in the house??

virtual realism…