Ben Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 Hi All! I'm having trouble creating a realistic looking wind loop. The aim is to have a nice gentle breeze rustling the leaves and a little bit of sway in branches, but I cant find the right balance of flexibly, stiffness and wind speed. I'm using a 200 frame loop to keep my animated proxy files to a reasonable size. This means I cant use Perturb Speed or Vector Can some one please advise "weather' its better to have: High wind speed with low flexibility and high stiffness Or Low wind speeds with lower stiffness and high flexibility See images and videos for more detail. Image 1 Wind Speed 0cm: I want to have this form swaying gently Image 2 Wind Speed 50cm: Tree form is ok but not great and wind is very subtle. Even with very slow camera movement it will be barley visible in an animation (see video below) Image 3 Wind Speed 100cm: Tree looks like its in a hurricane but only moving slowly (see video below) Max 2014 file attached. Thanks in advance! Wind_help_gfx.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduard Posted November 29, 2018 Report Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hi Ben, You just need to increase the frequency for small branches and leaves. To do this, you can simply reduce the Looping period, but remain a multiple of 200. For example, 100, 50, 40, etc. For leaves, it's better to enable the Axial rotation. See the attached file: Wind_help_gfx_1.max Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted December 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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