feather ztl jagged edges question

[earthstarchakra]

I made this feather by sub-dividing a plane and painting on an alpha using zadd set to 25 and rgb on and chose a red color then polygrouped by polypaint. I then went and hid part of the plane without the feather and deleted hidden but as you can see it has very jagged edges when viewed from the side … I want a very clean edge like you would see on an actual feather I tried to smooth or clip the edges with just about every brush there with no good result . Please if any one has any ideas on how I can get a clean edge like on a real feather please let me know… including any ideas that would involve making it with an entirely different work flow. I basically have the alpha I want to work with and want to end up with a detailed feather zbtool… thanks for any input you have happy zbrushing

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[Thor]

What resolution is your plane?

For something like this, I would:

Initialize a plane at 512 x 512

SubDiv once to get ~ a million polys

Delete lower SubDiv

Load the mask

Ctrl-shift-e to edgloop mask border

Deformation > polish by groups (or by features) - This should give you pretty smooth edges.

Then you can delete the unwanted group, and extract to get thickness if you want.

[earthstarchakra]

thanks for your answer Thor I appreciate it