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Rippling Flags........... [message #37573]

Fri, 08 August 2003 08:42

maytridy
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I followed General Havoc's Rippling Flag tutorial and I just can't get the animation to look good! Mad

Is there any way to use the wave modifier? Because the flag needs bones to move in-game and I can't manually make the ripples look realistic! Mad

Any ideas? Is it possible to use any modifiers?

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Rippling Flags........... [message #37622]

Fri, 08 August 2003 10:47

Jaspah
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I've seen it done before.

There one in Paradox Harbor but it looks fake.

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Rippling Flags........... [message #37626]

Fri, 08 August 2003 10:53

General Havoc
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I managed to make a rippling flag and it looked half decent. Basically the way I did it was to max an "X" shape with the bones and not a straight line down the centre. Start at frame 10 then use the rotate tool to rotate the bone in the corners and also the one in the middle. Move to frame 20 then move them in the oposite direction using the rotate tool and also move another bone or two. Basically the more frames you skip in between bone movements the smmmother it will look as RenX fills in the gaps between the key frames.

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Fri, 08 August 2003 11:03

maytridy
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Ok, thanks.

What do you mean by an "x" shape?

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Fri, 08 August 2003 11:19

General Havoc
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Here is a shape that works quite good when animating. The X shape works best for a hanging flag. The Y shape works best for flags on a pole because you usually want the bottom of the flag or the side of the flag to ripple th most.