Ornatrix 3dsmax: Feathers with Ornatrix

Hello everyone, in a few days i will start a new project that will include feathers, and i want to prepare for that in advance. The feathers on the creature will have a huge range of color variation, not only from the strands to the tip of the hairs, but also other very uniqe spots like you can see in a reference image that i attached. I am using V-ray with ornatrix and my main question is: What would be the best way to get this type of variation in tone spread over the hair, not randomly, but placed on spot where i want it to be. since the root to tip thing with the ornatrix texture does not really give me control over what i am looking for, i would really like to get some input on how other artists handled that in the past, any suggestions are highly appreciated. You can answer me here or even email me: richard.mugler@yahoo.de Thank you all in advance, Richard Mugler Attached Files:
21 July 2015 #6350
Michael McCarthy	Hello Richard, There are a couple of options here. One is to use 2 UV sets. Like hair on a leopard you can use the base mesh UVs to color or spot different feathers. Then you could do root to tip coloring on each. You can also do this with proxies and have different proxies that have different colors propagated on the mesh. Thanks Michael
21 July 2015 #6351
richardmugler	Thank You for the fast feedback Michael, I'm not shure if i understood it right, but i think a distribution from the surface is not what works in my case. Insted of having different colors for every single spline, i am searching for a way to get different colors on a 90 degree angle when looking at the feathers, so not just different on every spline or from root to tip but like in the image that i attached that explaines it hopefully a bit better (sorry for bad handwriting on the image). Thank You, Richard Attached Files:
23 July 2015 #6353
Michael McCarthy	I am trying to think of the best way to do this. ATM I think it would be with mesh proxies. We are looking to implement something that would streamline that workflow. Thanks Michael

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Data created:	21 July 2015