Texturing Continued, Ncloth simulations, Render Testing... - 15/03/2016

My next step was to get the flags perfect texture wise. I had lost the animation on the flags which was a huge pain as getting the cloth to behave how I wanted was a big trial and error run. I had to play with the dynamics of the cloth, and the wind and field force along with the mass, drag and lift of the cloth. I had to also set the world space of the nucleus to 0.1 which was accurate to the space in the environment, setting the gravity of that "world".

To texture the flags I had a look at masonic flags and satches that members might wear during rituals.

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Having a look through the types of flags, it became evident to me that I needed to make the flag quite vulgar and almost have some sort of symbolism on there. I wanted to stick with the gold/purple/black theme and so my result and renders in Vray are shown below:



Some of my renders and some render test are shown below:





By this point, I had also Uvd and textured the hinges aswell, applying appropriate materials.



I found that my renders came out a little noisy in areas where there might be loss of reflection. I had to render and re-render in attempts to get the noise to lessen.



I used a glass material in Vray for the pipe holder.







I had managed to get quite a bit of the noise dow by using some of the settings in the Vray quick settings tab.

Before I did, my renders looked like this. (Shown below)





After having done some render tests, I attempted to get the ncloth simulation back on to the textured flags. After many many, test, I have still been unsuccessful in getting the simulation I need. I found that I would get a nice, smooth flow, and then all of a sudden the flags will jitter and jump.

Some short playblasts of my animation tests are shown below:

No matter what I tried, the cloth simulation just does not co-operate with me and how I want it to move. This is a working progress, as I feel I will have to continue working on it to get it just perfect.