# Waving flag / billowing curtain

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**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435 "2003-01-31T05:07:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![AdamB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AdamB](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AdamB)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/1 "2003-01-31T05:07:28Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/2 "2003-06-25T23:17:06Z")

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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?

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/3 "2003-06-26T01:32:57Z")

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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.

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/4 "2003-06-26T01:47:27Z")

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[\>\>This Guy HERE\<\<](http://downloads.junioronline.us/details.php?section=2&item=31)

…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 :!:

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/5 "2003-06-26T01:49:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by RelandR \*  
> \*\*warning::pretty tough looking math in there :!: \*\*

Exactly… 😉

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/6 "2003-06-26T02:51:35Z")

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a really easy way would be a frame by fram animation 🙂

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/7 "2003-06-26T05:46:53Z")

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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

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/8 "2003-06-26T06:26:59Z")

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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.

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/9 "2003-06-26T06:35:36Z")

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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 …

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/waving-flag-billowing-curtain/12435/10 "2003-06-26T23:20:37Z")

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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 .