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3D Ribbon with cloth-like movement from air turbulence
Hello all,
First off, just want to say I love the community here. I am always amazed at how helpful people here at CreativeCow are. So, thank you for that :-).Anyway, I’m working on an effect right now that involves a ribbon flying through the scene on a path. I followed the “Creating the 3D Ribbon Effect” tutorial by Aharon and it worked perfectly. The problem I am having is that I would like a bit less rigid of a ribbon. I want a somewhat “clothy” material that reacts to air turbulence with little ripples and waves disrupting the surface as it moves along instead of a rigid object. I’m looking for something that looks like a foxtail (one of those balls with a long neon cloth tail that were popular in grade school for about a week) being thrown. I’ve been playing around assigning a cloth tag to the plane that makes up the ribbon. It looks promising as it has options for ‘wind drag’ and ‘wind turbulence,’ but they seem to have no effect on the ribbon the way I have it set up. Does assigning an object to a Spline Wrap nullify cloth tags? Am I missing something obvious? I’m fairly new to the whole 3D graphics world and I get confused easily. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Wow Brian! Thanks so much. Number 2 looks like it should serve my purposes quite nicely. Just a quick question, in number 3, I like the way it looks, but is there an easy way to gain more control over the ribbon? When I apply the ribbon to a different spline, it begins to whip around pretty wildly. If I could get the ribbon to conform to the spline a bit more rigidly, I’d like to use it, but if it isn’t an easy fix number 2 will be good.
Thanks so much.
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controlling the cloth one is all about the stiffness of the cloth, the air resistance, the mass, the gravity, etc. etc. etc. Global drag was real touchy just using mostly defaults with no gravity with that speed along that spline. It’s all going to depend on the setup you have, play with the settings a lot.
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