Classic - creating a flag

Potentially need to make a flag setup for a job , so abit of wind flapping attatched to a pole , probably not close up.

Best I could find from a search was this from 2014

Have things advanced in the last few years that there might be a neater more succesful method???

You’re way better off doing this in blender. There’s so many easy tutorials.

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cheers may well look into this depending on complexity :+1:

Isn’t there a 3d flag batch setup in the Logik portal too? From what I recall, I think it’s pretty useable off the shelf.

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oh thanks!!! will have a look!

Thats the kind of thing for sure but looking like i need it to be less windy than the geo in that setup. Gona see if I can use a tutorial to get what i need in Blender…

I think I have an alembic with animation that I stowed somewhere. I’ll look into it and try to find it.
It used to hold up for wide shots.

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When your company logo is a flag……
I have a blender animation in a flame batch here;
Download link
https://we.tl/t-TZKGOPlSwA
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flag.zip

90.3 MB

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ah im on flame 2025.1.2 currently i cant open that archive

It really isn’t that hard to do in Flame. Just create a folding texture, use that as a displacement map and light it. You can add a GMask to the folding texture on the side you want to connect to the pole then feather it off which will give it a side that doesn’t move. You can keep the shape to the corners too.

I don’t know why you’d need to jump into a CH tool for this. You can even 3D track it into a scene with parralax and you can still make it work.

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the flag needs to not have a lot of wind in it , but some , so its really folded quite alot sometimes with bits where it lifts up more

I can pull into an older vsn of flame tomorrow if this is the sort of thing you’re after?

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it needs to be more 45 degree angle / gentle wind. Im half way through a Blender tutorial and its getting somewhere so no worries.

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Blender is pretty awesome! Think I pretty much got the sim I need just need to watch rest of some tutorials about exporting correctly.

FYI this is the tutorial I followed , its designed for total beginners (I’d never opened the software before)…

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I even had a batch setup to go with it…
3D_flag.zip (7.8 MB)

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that setup is awesome and simple to repurpose! just the anim of the flag isnt quite right for this case but will def use in the future!!