Introduction: ANIMATED INDIAN FLAG USING BLENDER

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Blender tutorial showing you to how to use the cloth simulator to make an animated flag.

Step 1: ADD IMAGE AS PLANE

  1. PRESS A TO SELECT ALL.
  2. PRESS X TO DELETE EVERYTHING INCLUDING LAMP , CAMERA AND CUBE
  3. PRESS SHIFT+A THEN ADD MESH THEN ADD IMAGE AS PLANE
  4. THEN SELECT ANY FLAG PICTURE FROM YOUR COMPUTER
  5. I USED INDIA FLAG
  6. THEN PRESS R THEN X THEN 90 TO ROTATE ALONG X AXIS

Step 2: SUBDIVIDE YOUR PLANE

  1. PRESS TAB FOR EDIT MODE
  2. PRESS CTRL +R FOR LOOP CUT
  3. THEN PRESS W AND CHOOSE SUBDIVIDE

  4. PRESS T TO SHOW THE LEFT HAND SIDE TOOLBAR

  5. CHANGE THE NUMBERS OF LOOP CUTS TO 10

  6. HIT ENTER

  7. AND AGAIN PRESS W AND SELECT SUBDIVIDE

Step 3: PINNING

  1. GO TO PHYSICS OPTION IN THE PROPERTIES PANNEL
  2. SELECT CLOTH
  3. UNDER THE CLOTH SECTION TURN ON PINNING
  4. THEN GO TO OBJECT DATA BUTTON IN THE PROPERTIES PANNEL
  5. MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN EDIT MODE
  6. SELECT THE ALL LEFT VERTEX OF THE PLANE FOR PINNING
  7. TO SELECT ALL THE LEFT SIDE VERTEX HOLD ALT AND SELECT THE LEFTMOST VERTEX THIS WILL SELECT ALL THE VERTEX
  8. CLICK ON + BUTTON UNDER VERTEX GROUP
  9. DOUBLE CLICK TO RENAME 'PIN'
  10. AND CLICK ON ASSIGN BUTTON
  11. NOW GO BACK TO PHYSICS IN THE PROPERTIES PANNEL
  12. SELECT THE PIN VERTEX GROUP FOR PINNING
  13. SELECT SELF COLLISION
  14. SELCT DYNAMIC MESH

Step 4: FORCE FIELD-WIND

  1. PRSS SHIFT+ A TO ADD FORCE FIELD AND SELECT WIND
  2. SET THE STRENGTH VALUE TO 1000
  3. ALIGN THE FORCE FEILD AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE

Step 5: CLOTH SETTINGS

  1. IN THE PROPERTIES PANNEL GO TO PHYSICS
  2. UNDER THE CLOTH SECTION SET THE FOLLOWING VALUES
  3. MASS-0.05
  4. STRUCTURE-1
  5. AIR-0.3
  6. STEPS-7
  7. BENDING-0.050
  8. SPRING-0.1
  9. VELOCITY-1
  10. GRAVITY-0.7

Step 6: SMOOTH AND MODIFIER

  1. SELECT THE PLANE AND UNDER TOOLBAR OPTION SELECT SMOOTH
  2. SELECT MODIFIERS AND ADD MODIFIER SUBDIVISION MODIFIERS
  3. SET VIEW AND RENDER VALUE TO 2

Step 7: DYNAMIC SKY FOR BACKGROUD

  1. GO TO FILES AND THEN USERS PREFERENCES
  2. UNDER ADDON SEARCH DYNAMIC
  3. SELECT BOTH THE ADDONS
  4. AND THEN SAVE USERS SETTINGS
  5. THEN CLICK ON CREATE BUTTON

Step 8: FINAL STEP

  1. NOW SETUP YOUR CAMERA BY ADDING A CAMERA
  2. SHIFT+A TO ADD A CAMERA
  3. PRESS 0 FOR CAMERA MODE
  4. ALIGN YOUR CAMERA AS YOU WANT
  5. FOR VIDEO REFERENCE GO TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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