snap flag flap

here is just one of the 3 uv snapshots i did for the 3 different tents, was all straight forward once i got the hang of it all. The next task adam got me to do was to animate 2 flag shots of his for 2 different scenes. The first shot i had to get the fag to look like it was being pulled out the ground and then pulled down at a angle from a up shot angle. This seemed easy enough but i wasn't experienced at all in ncloth apart from making the previous flags blow in the wind. I animated the path it needed to go and fiddled around with the wind nucleus properties till it looked nice. Below is the resulting short animation shot.

Next shot was a flag being slowly waved back an forth in a crowd which seemed easy to but again i had difficulties with the wind nucleus properties and i tried many different ways to get the flag to go round in a figure of 8 smoothly. I first tried using a motion path for the flag pole but this didnt work resulting in eratic movement and the flag tangling round the pole. I then tried to simplify the path and i got it keyframed so that it rotated round in a circle but this was to slow an the flag kept on catching when i tried doing it this way. I ended up whipping the flag over to one side and around and down and up over to the other side and this sort of seemed to work.

See below for an example of a fail.

Below is the one that was to fast.

Below is the one that finally went round.