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Ondulation/Animation

Fern

Fern

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I am trying to make a flag that ondulates slowly. Note that I don't need it to turn with the wind, just ondulate.

I can animate it in gmax and it works there, I can call the whole thing tick18 but nothing happens in FS.

Any ideas?

F
 
Did you animate the vertices? FS cannot do this.
I created a windsock, that does just what you explain. But I had to divide the windsock into several cubes and then just let them swing a little by animating the cubes. It seems to be the only possibility for now. ;)

If it's only a 2D-flag, you could also use texture-animations. There is a tutorial about this in the fx-SDK from MS.
 
Anymating the flagq

Hi,

Thanks!

That's exactly what I did: animate the vertices.

I had thought of deviding the flag into segments and animating each segment. I was just hoping someone would tell me something like "oh, just call the flag object "truck18" instead of "tick18", or some other quick fix...

I should have guessed there at no quick fixes with gmax.

Thanks

Fern
 
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