amiga | 3 years ago | 1 like | 696 views
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So I was inspired by Selina and her satin drapes (thanks Selina!), and wondered if her Velvet texture could be used on a waving flag layer to achieve similar results.
Fun experiment, but not quite the same results as she demonstrated, however it did get me to thinking about a question, and it ultimately resulted in a really mesmerizing feature/bug/or just plain fun. (Not sure what Michiel may call what I saw, but it is still cool!)
First the question. Can a waving flag layer have a repeating texture, so the single shiny line from Selina's Velvet texture could be repeated more than once on that single flag?
The second part (the crazy bit) came when I was playing around with the Size property of the flag, and noticed with a few of the values, the flag seemed to obtain a mind of it's own.
I captured this in the attached BT file. Until the very end, it is simply a flag (in drapery mode, i.e. hanging down) that shifts over a little bit like a drape being pulled back at the top. That part works completely as expected. The fun comes in the last two keyframes (located right next to each other at the end of the timeline) where I modified the second SIZE parameter of the flag from a value of 1 to a value of 0.364.
The animation actually ends there (obviously) after that change in SIZE, but if you watch the BT screen afterwards, the flag looks like it gets caught up between two competing washing machines and goes wild! It's actually kinda cool to watch it spiral around almost in a huge loop, and eventually settles down, but it takes a while.
Michiel, is that a bug, or a feature I'm not fully understanding? By the way, even though it is very apparent in this mode (watching it after the animation is complete), if you keyframe between those values during an animation, a lot of weird spikes still shoot out from the flag connection points.
No matter what, it does remind me of my earlier days when "experimentation" was encouraged... And I don't necessarily mean experimentation with BT... ;-)
Thanks for the fun!!!
Amiga
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