Can anyone point me to a good tutorial (Flash MX) for creating the effect of wind blowing a sheet of material.
What I’d really like to do is make a lace curtain billowing in a gentle breeze.
Thanks!
Adam
I’m looking for a tut about the billowing effect as well…is this supposed to be an easy thing and that’s why no-one has replied?
Im pretty sure no one answered because this isn’t an easy thing. The AS method would most likely be too CPU intensive (not to mention difficult to create, I never did one so I don’t know), and the tween method would be quite complex and advanced.
All I can say is try try try and try some more… :-\ Sorry I can’t help more.
…has an effect that should serve as a starting point to achieve that - sortOf… with a few tweaks… mayBe
dnld his “ego-flag” experiment and play with the settings in the script (I’d make a ‘screw with it’ copy first :beam: )
warning::pretty tough looking math in there :!:
*Originally posted by RelandR *
**warning::pretty tough looking math in there :!: **
Exactly… 
a really easy way would be a frame by fram animation
U could use a 3d program easily. I have done a flag with a logo b4 as a simple 12 frame job.
Export your frames from a 3d program (i use cinema 4d). Use photoshop to optimise these images.
Create a movieclip, then once in your MC, import the Images. Keep them as bitmaps or use the image Trace tool. OR
Spend a hell of a long time tracing in illustrator, or use autotrace in programs such as Freehand.
If you use the images over 12 frames (assuming you are running your movie @ 24fps), the animation will be too quick. So stretch each graphic over about three frames, or whatever you feel looks right.
*tip for transparent images from Photoshop, u can save as .png file, with background transparent checked.
you may get a slightly large file, but you can always optimise the swf.
Hope this helps & hasn’t wasted 30 secs of ur life =P
thanks for those ideas. I was thinking maybe the magnifying effect with masks might work in a weird way. Anyway I’ll try some of all.
actually you may be on to something there …
there is a neat ripple effect done just that way, basically it is two identical images, one slightly larger, layer-stacked and the larger one has a animated mask that loops. It uses repeating circles radiating outward …
you could use thin panels spaced apart (inyer maskClip) that scroll by in a loop …
This is true. In the meantime I’m still getting my drowning in the lake thing to work as part of a flash horror thing I’m doing. If I can get the billowing effect to work plus a floating mist then I 'll be right and pass it on here once it’s done. thx again .
