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- Create your first cloth simulation
- Tweak cloth settings to produce realistic results
- ‘Pin’ a portion of cloth
- UV unwrap an image onto cloth
- Setup a wind object with randomized patterns
Many years ago, if you mentioned the word ‘fabric’ to a 3d artist you would have seen visible signs of nervousness. Just the thought of all that moving mesh was enough to make anyone’s stomach churn. But in 2006 the cloth simulator was born, allowing even the most amateur artist to create realistic cloth physics at the press of a button.
Like me! In 2009 I used this very feature to create the final shot in my short film The Ballad of the M4 Carbine. I’ve since received countless emails from people asking me how I did this so I thought I’d finally get around to creating a tutorial 
The finished result:
Hear that? That’s raw patriotism right there…
In this tutorial I’ll be walking you through the basics of cloth simulation and how to use it to create an animated waving flag. If you’re a freelancer this type of job is bound to crop up from one time or another, so it’s a good trick to have under your belt.
What creative uses can you think of for the cloth simulator? Leave a comment below 
Thank you again. Here is my version of a classic,
http://youtu.be/zvV8v3JLbGE
Hi all
can any body tell me how to download this flag source codes into my site that I am preparing? I have downloaded the Blender but don’t know how to copy this flag and use some other flag.
I am not a web expert
Please email me also if you don’t mind
Thank you
Jamil Ahmad
jamil7811@hotmail.com
I am a first time blender user found this by chance and spent some time reading the manual before attempting the tutorial
here is my first ever attempt at doing the tutorial sadly i could not find how to put a flagpole on or make the background move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIq29sWAFo
so in the end i messed with the finished blend to make what i was trying to get although it was not the correct thing to do and i will read more tutorials and the wiki manuals i have found until i can make my own,
i would also like to attempt to put music on it if i can find a tutorial for that
here is the moded download blend hope you dont mind me using it Andrew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zcCV0b71p4
Andrew would like to ask you something: You told the flag, but how you follow that line would not show it, Is it possible to continue?
after attempting the tutorial and managing to m,ake a flag i tried to get background on it and a flagpole with no success
so i downloaded andrews finished blend
opened it in blender changed the flag image to the one i had made changed the background to the one i wanted then went in to the lines and the animation settings to make the flagpole reflect the background and look like it was on fire took some time to get what i wanted there i also changed the lighting color in all 3 lamps to match what i wanted
hope that is what you where asking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsfL7z_Inzo Finnaly madi it Pls Thumbs Up
Hey Andrew,
I was just wanting to know how to make proper clothing like say, a Shirt or Pants. How would you go about doing that?
Please if you have anytime that would be muchly appreciated
Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsfL7z_Inzo
Issue here,
If I increase the frames, cloth animation is not working for increased frames. I reapply the cloth simulation but still i got the same problem. It works only for 240 frames, please help.
I had this same issue. After hours of searching I found that you need to select your “cloth” and in the change the to the length you’d like your animation to be.
quick question: my flag doesnt drop when I hit alt a, but this happened before where my plane slides through the collision cube then folds up like a taco. I’ve had experience with the cloth sim and I’m on 2.48…any tips?
You don’t know what you’ve unleashed.
hehe
http://www.youtube.com/user/Onesideofyams?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/3o8KOuAxHuo
This is it.
hehe
Funny. I heard it was a typo when you typed in “Flag”
When i try to render it just shows up as a flat flag no matter what frame im on. everything is subdivided as well. any suggestions please?
I have the same matter, i dont know why
when i render it looks just like the normal plane but in 3D view everything works OK, i want to know how fix it
here is my image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55771371@N05/6158483344/in/photostream
animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQGFMhqzdTw
Here’s my flag…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caTgmEqOoU0
–Whitehat
Thanks a lot for all your tutorials, really helpful.
I’m a hobbyist 3D modeller for games and will use this for generating an animated texture.
Is there a way to loop the animation for texture generation purpose?
17 images: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kKeZHzW8e4
Thanks again
I’m a beginner with this software but no luck so far. I tried using the finished blender and modifying it but the flag goes into itself and goes weird.
btw, great tutorial
I made a Blood Raven Banner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw3ffOvG8Ic&feature=youtu.be
Thanks a lot!
LOL dude you get a drink in all of your videos haha
Here’s mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDwD5vDoGQ
Here are my results from this tutorial. I think I need to work on it a little more but I am impressed with the results so far. These tutorials are great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmfGvx-sju0&feature=youtu.be
Awesome! You don’t need to UV unwrap the flag. Just give it an image texture. That simplifies things a lot.
PS
After the tut I googled australian fag!