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[M Rose]

I purchased an animated flag kit as there is an Australian flag near the Royal Melbourne clubhouse that I wanted to add in; the flag moves in Unity if I press the "play" button, but it does not work in Perfect Golf, and CF won't let me do a build unless I stop the animation.

 

Is there a way to have this work, or will the two not be compatible with each other?

[pingzing]

The drop down icon above on the top above scene window  in cf , the window that shows scene , game, asset store, its the icon under asset store , shows a picture 

where you tick skybox, fog, etc, is animated materails ticked

 

Could be that

[NoPutt]

The flag most likely has a script that PG

doesn't allow. 

[M Rose]

It is ticked. I'm guessing it is probably a script, which means it won't work at all.

 

Not really important, but I guess I wasted five bucks

[garynorman]

The flag most likely has a script that PG

doesn't allow. 

 

That'd be my guess too...

 

It's really annoying that Unity doesn't work with deformed mesh animations from third party 3d applications.  I wonder if there's any way that the devs could allow us to tap into the script that animates the pin flags?

[NoPutt]

I'm animating some flags with blender.

The cloth collisions work great and the

air-flow can also be adjusted. A little more 

testing to get the FPS just right and the looping

down to a few seconds and all should work great.

Fingers Crossed.

[M Rose]

I figure there has to be some way to do it if we can make water move, and (Dogz?) can make a moving train.

 

I was hoping to put some flags in for Royal Melbourne on a couple of the holes that are on the plot but out of play, so if you can find a technique that works, I'd love to learn how to do it.

[Crow357]

See if there's a script for the regular flag and see if you can apply it to your flag?

[DPRoberts]

Eager to see if you guys can solve this. I downloaded something a few months back that I couldn't get to run in game either.

Can it be placed in the scripts folder like the flock of birds? Maybe they allow special pass through permission to that folder?

I couldn't find the PP script either that runs the in game flag.

I figured the NoPutt solution of Blender was the best no script way to do it. Just never got around to it.

[Jimbobh]

I made this flag for my Highlands course. I am trying to make a unity package for it to upload, but unity isn't cooperating. Once I get it figured out, I'll upload it if anyone is interested. You would just need to change the flag texture to what you want.

[NoPutt]

Well. I can design and animate the flag in Blender,

but not sure if I'm exporting correctly into Unity.

Kinda stuck for now. Any ideas DP?

[garynorman]

Well. I can design and animate the flag in Blender,

but not sure if I'm exporting correctly into Unity.

Kinda stuck for now. Any ideas DP?

As I already stated, I'm pretty sure that you cannot create animated meshes in 3rd party software and export them into Unity...

 

You can animate an object's position or animate two separate meshes either manually (with keyframes) or with the use of 'bones' but you cannot deform meshes have that deformation animate within Unity via 3rd party software (eg Blender)

 

Just in case you still don't believe me:

 

http://blender.stack...y-problem/72305

 

https://forum.unity3...g-a-flag.42495/

[NoPutt]

I believe you, and I've seen those questions and answers, I'm just too stubborn to give up.

I was hoping that sub-dividing the plane as above

and animating would work, but apparently not.

What a shame, flags really put a stamp on a course,

but I refuse to hoist a static rectangle. Thanks G.

[Jimbobh]

Ok, I made this prefab of the flag if you want to try it. I doesn't drag in to the scene quite right but I will work on that. Some adjustments might need to be made depending on wind direction between the flag and pole since they are not actually attached to each other.

Neil, did you add the Cloth physics to your flag?

https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing

 

 

 

[NoPutt]

I did add the Cloth physics in Blender.

Did you export into Unity as  .FBX?

[Jimbobh]

I saved as a blender file, and added the unity cloth physics to it. Just add component and search for cloth. It was a long time ago when I made this so I have forgotten a lot..lol

[NoPutt]

So the animating was done in Unity also?

I was able to drag your flag into the scene,

worked great. I suppose you just used Blender

for texturing a 2 sided plane, and exporting to Unity?

[Jimbobh]

I don't remember exactly what I did...lol. I'll send you my blender file so you can check it out. I know I had to add weights or something to it, and maybe an artmature.

[NoPutt]

Thanks Jim, I'd be interested in seeing the Blender file.

[Jimbobh]

Here is a short tutorial on getting a Flag in Unity.  Not great but will give you an idea how it works.

Sorry I have no mic so I used captions. Hope this helps a little.

 

Unity Flag package: This is my finished Flag

https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing

 

Materials and double sided shader. unzip and Put these in your assets folder.  (the dbl sided shader allows texture to both sides of flag)

https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing

 

 

Good Luck,, Jim