#HOW TO WAVE A FLAG?
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Hi to all
I have a little Q.
How to wave a flag in the best way? The flag in the CD is not smooth
enough and I need the flag to be in full screen and in a lot
of frames so I need the morph to be very smooth. I have the waves.pxp
and Mwave.pxp but I never had much success with them.
With Help.
Sus.
What do you mean, not smooth? I thought it was. Are you rendering to fields?
Is the standard file too fast? Try to slomo it by scaling the file to greater
number of frames and field render. If you were more specific as to what it was
that didn't look right I might be of more help.
Hi Don.
<<What do you mean, not smooth? I thought it was. Are you rendering to
fields? Is the standard file too fast? Try to slomo it by scaling the file to
greater number of frames and field render. If you were more specific as to what
it was that didn't look right I might be of more help.>>
I never thought about scaling the frames…thanks. I am not rendering
to fields but I didn't mean that the animation wasn't smooth enough
but the flag, I mean I need to have a flag with much much more faces
for a good close-up.
With Thanks
Sus.
>>I mean I need to have a flag with much much more faces
for a good close-up.
OK, Now I understand. Try this: Tesselate the flag and you will get more
faces so the bends will be finer. Of course, there goes the rendering speed
but hey you wanted smoother bends in the flag's cloth right? Maybe others have
some different approaches to this that won't be a hit on rendering speed.
Hi Don.
<<Try this: Tesselate the flag and you will get more faces so the bends will
be finer. Of course, there goes the rendering speed but hey you wanted
smoother bends in the flag's cloth right? Maybe others have some different
approaches to this that won't be a hit on rendering speed. >>
OK. so I have tesselated the flag, But how can I make it wave like a
flag (with one side more stiffed) and not like a normal wave?
Any suggestions?
with thanks
Sus
>>OK. so I have tesselated the flag, But how can I make it wave like a
flag (with one side more stiffed) and not like a normal wave?
Well that is not what you first asked. I thought you wanted the close up
camera views to be smoother. The tesselation should help with that. Now you
want to introduce multiple waves to the animation? Actually there several ways
to do this, some more difficult than others. You can try to apply the IPAS
twice to introduce a blend of smaller waves. Or an easier approach would be to
start from scratch and use something like Mirage as an IXP and composite the
new flag animation over the rest of your scene.
Now that I recall the original flag animation did have a pretty random wave
look to it. I used it in a project with a checker flag for a race track TV
commercial and it looked pretty damn good by itself. You maybe doing something
very wrong with it if you don't thing it looks real. I'm not sure I could
improve on it at all.
<<Now that I recall the original flag animation did have a pretty random wave
look to it. I used it in a project with a checker flag for a race track TV
commercial and it looked pretty damn good by itself. You maybe doing something
very wrong with it if you don't thing it looks real. I'm not sure I could
improve on it at all.>>
It did look great but I want to be able to choose 2 or 3 waves
make them wave across horiz. or vertically and with the 'unchanged'
mesh that comes in the CD-ROM I can't do a thing…
But thanks anyway.
Sus.