A few days ago there was an entry in the news of “maxunderground.com” speaking about a feather simulator for XSI, it was curious to me that was necessary to develop a simulator for feathers specifically, it was a curios thing until I began to do some feather in max, a feather simulator can be very useful, specially if the main character of our production is going to be a chicken full of feathers, but we can achieve similar results using the hair system that we have within max.
Create Feather Simulations Using 3ds Max Hair System
made feathers from hair system is not new. and this tutorial is ripped completly from another vfx guy blog. im lookin it up now adn will post it here