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  Animating a string blowing in the wind?

  Posted by Frank Weber on February 10, 2007 at 12:34 pm

  Like a baloon’s string- in the wind.
  Best way to do this?
  I’m hoping there is a better way than – Wave warp?
  The same problem applies to Hand made flames, hair, rope being pulled.
  Thanks!

  The Answer is 42.

  Aharon Rabinowitz replied 19 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Anim8@creativecow.net

  February 10, 2007 at 3:19 pm

  would generating a stroke on a bezier mask curve and animating it manually do the trick?

  I’ve a similar problem – stylized strands of hair. If any one has any ideas about that as well! (Exploring 3D Stroke in the same manner as Generate Stroke, though I wish there was a Particular preset for hair!)
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  Nate Vander plas

  February 10, 2007 at 4:37 pm

  There’s bezier warp. It won’t give you very many curves in the string, though. Also CC Bend it- but same problem. What’s wrong with wavewarp?
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  Aharon Rabinowitz

  February 11, 2007 at 5:05 pm

  if you want something with mnore randomness then wave warp, then use a displacement map generated via a fractal noise map. If you aren;t familiar with displacement maps, then check out these tutorials:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement1/index.html

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement2/index.html

  https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/displacement3/index.html

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