Anyone know where I can find a properly folded flag? Textures don't matter, I can make my own, but I need a folded flag.

Are you looking for something like this? I will keep my eyes open for it. I'd model it, but I am not quite sure where to begin with something like this.

rokket posted at 7:02PM Sat, 29 August 2015 - #4225321

Are you looking for something like this? I will keep my eyes open for it. I'd model it, but I am not quite sure where to begin with something like this.

Yes. Properly, militarily folded flag. Folded like it would be at a military funeral.

I think the challenge here is to keep the UV mapping flat so that an unaltered flag image can be used as a texture map. My approach would be to create a flat flag, UV map it, and then fold it in the modeller. This might also offer the option of a 'flat / folded' morph (although values other than 0 or 1 would not be very useful!)

This page http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-an-American-Flag seems to show how it's done, although as a Limey I have no way of knowing if it's accurate. ;)

If that procedure is correct, I might be able to have a go at it.

EnglishBob posted at 4:07AM Wed, 02 September 2015 - #4225994

I think the challenge here is to keep the UV mapping flat so that an unaltered flag image can be used as a texture map. My approach would be to create a flat flag, UV map it, and then fold it in the modeller. This might also offer the option of a 'flat / folded' morph (although values other than 0 or 1 would not be very useful!)

This page http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-an-American-Flag seems to show how it's done, although as a Limey I have no way of knowing if it's accurate. ;)

If that procedure is correct, I might be able to have a go at it.

As an American Vet, I can tell you; it's accurate.

I've been practising with my cut-out paper flag, and while I'm unlikely to be accepted for citizenship of the USA any time soon, I am gaining some idea of what's involved. It would be interesting to make this a rigged figure, so the folding process could be animated, but at this point I confess I haven't a clue how that might be achieved.

Yeah, don't ask me!!!! I have a hard enough time with rigging normal things. Trying something like that would put me in the hospital!

I'd like to see what you come up with, though. I'd like to reverse engineer it so I could learn to do something like that.

rokket posted at 2:11PM Wed, 02 September 2015 - #4225998

EnglishBob posted at 4:07AM Wed, 02 September 2015 - #4225994

I think the challenge here is to keep the UV mapping flat so that an unaltered flag image can be used as a texture map. My approach would be to create a flat flag, UV map it, and then fold it in the modeller. This might also offer the option of a 'flat / folded' morph (although values other than 0 or 1 would not be very useful!)

This page http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-an-American-Flag seems to show how it's done, although as a Limey I have no way of knowing if it's accurate. ;)

If that procedure is correct, I might be able to have a go at it.

As an American Vet, I can tell you; it's accurate.

It's accurate.