ClothFX variation for each flag

[byronpetch]

Hi all,

Im getting a little confused with ClothFX and wind effectors. I need to create a scene with three flags and im getting in a bit of a flap....erhum...yes well anyway ..

Ive never used cloth effects or wind effectors before but to my surprise it seemed quite easy to apply the clothFX to one flag then add a wind dynamic using the dynamics tab under object properties. I then made the wind a bit more erratic by adding a texture channel to the wind direction.

the confusion came when I duplicated the flag a couple of times. i thought I would change the wind dynamic on each flag a bit so they all flap in a slightly different way. Each time I did this I found they still moved in the same way. I then realized that even though each flag had its own wind dynamic applied to it they all had exactly the same settings. As I changed one it also changed the others.

Im a little confused and would appreciate it if somebody could throw a little light on the matter for me.

[prospector]

did you dup them in layout?

[byronpetch]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Yes I did duplicate them in Layout. Ive since been looking at other sample scenes and am starting to realise that perhaps I should have applied a wind dynamic to a null object rather than each flag.

Matt

[HowardM]

yes, Wind is its own entity so you can move it, rotate, etc....

you were basically making the actual Flag object a Wind too, but not sure why all 3 were changed at once...thats really wierd...

if you want different winds, you need multiple wind objects...

[byronpetch]

Many thanks. I think the penny is starting to drop.