Hello everybody,
Does anybody know how to go about creating realistic feathers in UE4?
Creating the asset or creating material? One feather or an entire creature?
The material for a Bird I’m modeling . I wasn’t sure if there was a specific shader that should be used or not.
Depends a lot on the bird.
Sometimes birds can have the look of anisotropic materials, sometimes they are iridescent, there are unique looks to the specularity, and sometimes translucency/subsurface scattering is important. A lot of those problems and solutions are similar to the problems with creating hair.
I’d take a look at the discussion regarding hair here https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/…ter/index.html and try to apply that to feathers. Figure out what parts are important to get right for your bird.
what’s your criteria on realistic ?