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Using Cloth Tag on Plane, How to then Move that Object?
So I got this rectangle plane, applied the cloth tag, set everything the way I like it, but I’m having a hard time trying to find out how once you get all the settings with the cloth tag, how to move and adjust the position of the whole object. It’s a flag, and I need to position it around my other objects in the scene.
I made it a nulls child and still not able to adjust the position or rotation. Any ideas?
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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
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4 Replies
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You can use the Belt Tag to fix some or all of your flag’s points to another object, and then move the other object. Being a simulation, you can’t move the cloth object directly.
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Thank you for the advice.
I tried selecting all the points and connected it to a plane object that was big enough to encompass all of the points, and while it is moving, it’s heavily distorting the cloth object.
Am I going about something the wrong way here?
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ej.hassenfratz
senior.graphic.designer
wjla-nc8/eyedesyn.com
washington.dc -
You don’t want to belt *all* the points — that will basically constrain the whole mesh and prevent it from doing it’s cloth thing. Since you’re doing flags you probably just want to belt the points where the flag would attach to the pole or rope. Once you move the belt objects you’ll have to let the sim run for some frames (sort of a pre-roll) in order for everything to calm down.
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It’s a bit ‘pants’ but the only workaround i found was to create a second copy of the cloth object and remove its cloth tag. Then i moved the cloth tag from the original object allowing me to move it. When i was happy with the position I just dragged the cloth icon back from the second object onto the first.
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