• Adobe After Effects

  a waving flag question

  Posted by Amir Leder on December 16, 2008 at 11:47 pm

  hi

  i’m try to wave my flag in the wind
  i took a flag and effact him with displacment map
  it give me the shape of the wind
  but i missing the shadow(and highlight)in the flag
  to make it look natural

  thanks
  amir

  Jason Milligan replied 17 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Elad Menashe

  December 17, 2008 at 12:48 pm

  Displacement map will only translate your pixels according to the map, without any effect to the pixel color.
  I’d recommend Zaxwerks 3D Flag for the job.
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  Amir Leder

  December 17, 2008 at 4:27 pm

  thanks for your answer but i don’t have that plug in
  i’m looking for a way to do it with the build in effects
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  Jason Milligan

  December 17, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  Have you tried using duplicates of your displacement map with varying blending modes as highlights and shadows?

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