Doesn’t anyone know if this is possible

[Jon Okerstrom]

Hi Video,

As I suggested in my earlier post, your best option is likely to use a steady wind, and do a fast dissolve between flag movies at a point when the motions are similar.

The plug-in doesn’t offer an automatic “loop me” function. I suspect that forcing the flag to return to a an exact position at a specified point in time isn’t easy, given all the work that’s gone into making the cloth dynamics look as real and random as they do.

Hope this helps.

Jon

[Video Papineau]

Thank you Jon.

Your insight is appreciated. I suspected this but just in case I might have missed something, I really wanted to get a second opinion.

By any chance, do you know of any programs that will give me the ability to loop an animation such as a flag blowing in the wind?

Thanks again!

Denis

[Jon Okerstrom]

Hi Denis,

Before Zax introduced 3D Flag, I had found the best way to make a flag was using Forge Freeform. The results can be pretty convincing. though not in the same league with 3D Flag. (Nothing touches Flag’s real-world wind on cloth simulations and ease of use.)

I’ve seen a couple of tutorials on making flags with Forge Freeform.

Here’s one done by Kathlyn Lindeboom:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=41&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_kathlyn/flag_freeform/index.html

Here’s another one specifically dealing with looping a flag:
https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae02_e.html

Hope this helps,

Jon

[Video Papineau]

Thank you very much Jon!

I will definitely check it out.

Cheers

Denis