UE4.26 Simulate a Cloth Flag

In this video we'll use Unreal Engine 4.26 to create a cloth simulation on a portion of a mesh. This method can be used for a variety of cloth simulations on characters or meshes that are unrigged, such as the one shown here.
Useful information can be further found in the documentation.
docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/E...

[@SilentEvil97]

Amazing tutorial, Perfect and straight to the point. Thank you so much!

[@SnapLaunch]

Great to hear - thank you!

[@HyperGalaxyEntertainment]

thanks for sharing hope the new chaos system for clothes sim tutorial soon~

[@TECTONN]

Thanks for the amazing tutorial! Looking forward to something like Human cloth tutorial, like Journey's full character Cloth! Would be amazing. Thanks again!

[@SnapLaunch]

Great suggestion! Thanks!

[@Skyleneee]

For some reason it didnt cross my mind that the intensity of the brush could go past 100 lol :'D Thank you for this tutorial!

[@AngelsModz]

Fantastic video, very easy to understand thank you for this.

[@SnapLaunch]

Thanks Angel :) Cheers, Ben

[@AngelsModz]

@@SnapLaunch wait my replay is not here. I aksed if it was possible to discord you or something, cause I do have a few questions about what you did here. I left my discord, but my comment I guess was deleted. Dang. Let me know how we can have a conversation if at all possible please.

[@novaria]

Great content! Subbed

[@SnapLaunch]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@luceskywalker716]

the moment when you learn more in a 5 min tutorial than 2 hours in class. Thank you very much good sir!

[@SnapLaunch]

Thanks for letting me know - I'm glad it was helpful :)

[@zero-g-racer]

so simply, blowing my mind

[@SnapLaunch]

Ha ha, nice, thanks :)

[@thegreatchameleonwar7192]

This is a great tutorial! I am wondering if anyone has a good reference or video on how to make the actual flag texture/material. I get how to make an opacity mask but am interested on how to get this kind of look in general.

[@MaxiCrows]

more unreal videos please ! awsome thanks !

[@SnapLaunch]

Thanks! Will do!

[@MarvelMaster]

Haha I wanted to do a video like this to...with Water, Volumetric clouds and cloth simulation

[@SnapLaunch]

Do it! Those features work great together :D

[@loneshadow-studio]

I really wish that UE4 had built in simulation physics baking.

[@FattyBull]

love it, thank you man. But one thing. Let's say you have two different objects. First one is a rigid object and the second is the cloth. Both both objects are individual meshes.
For example: 1. Mesh is a Sphere . 2nd Mesh: The Cloth. Let's drop the cloth, so it will react to the first mesh. There is no process that describes that. In your example, you use one simple mesh, the pole plus the fabric for the flag. But how to do that, if the pole and the flag itself, are two individual skeletal meshes?

[@koolkat0002]

thanks for the great tutorial !! how did you create the skeletal mesh for the flag?

[@SnapLaunch]

Thank you! I imagine you found the answer to your question already, but in case not, from memory I used the joint tool in Maya. Blender can do the same thing with Armatures. :)

[@LovelyBigga]

"That's looking good" @3.36

[@CdeeqFilmmaker]

is there a way to create a mesh collider instead of using a bounding box collider ????

[@blackswan6386]

hello Sir can you help me how to add wind in my cinematic scene ? its only blowing when i hit play, but when i start recording its not acting. what do i miss out ? i have my wind source actor in my cinemativ level sequencer but it dosent change anything. thanks

[@Jack-429]

Can cloth get wet I mean if you touch the water with cloth it will gets wet like in grand theft auto 5 and red dead redemption 2

[@PalmaMultimedia]

Xlent tut

[@SnapLaunch]

Thank you :)

[@brownbalak4641]

Hey man, could you help me with it. Whenever I tried to create clothing data, it creates it but it doesn't show up on clothing data assets on the left.

[@sonthai9539]

Sorry I have a question. How can I add cloth siumalation in to level sequence? :( thank u

[@ludoooart]

Hello i don't understand i click on the skeleton mesh and do right clik but nothing happen, i don't have the section to create a clothing data like you...

[@robheppellvideooffice]

Same problem - right clicking on skeletal mesh does nothing

[@robheppellvideooffice]

actually clicking around a bit it does in the end

[@modcom-tw3vv]

Brother, why doesn't the cloth flutter the flag inside the sequence?

[@ivnmaturana3684]

does that work on sequencer?

[@michabednarski5555]

where to get the mesh?

[@heavybaguette]

Bonjour, merci ! how we can just enabled the wind for the Flag and not for the character ?. because my character as affected by the wind...

[@SnapLaunch]

Thanks! I'm not sure how to do that Heavy Baguette - good luck!

[@SanneBerkhuizen]

Cool, have a comment for the algorithm

[@SnapLaunch]

Haha, thanks for that :)

[@TommyLUTommyLingL]

may i ask if 4.26 is using the new chaos physics for cloth simulation now?

[@SnapLaunch]

Hi Tommy, yes this uses the new Chaos solver which replaces the NvCloth solver. Further details can be seen in the Skeletal Meshes' Clothing panel, under Config -> Cloth Configs -> ChaosClothConfig and ChaosClothShared where a number of cloth properties can be adjusted. The Chaos Cloth plugin will also need to be loaded.

[@TommyLUTommyLingL]

@@SnapLaunch nice! though if i update my project to 4.26, will all my existing skeleton mesh automatically update to use chaos solver?

[@HyperGalaxyEntertainment]

@@SnapLaunch thanks for you information~~

[@SnapLaunch]

@@TommyLUTommyLingL I'm unsure as I haven't migrated any projects to 4.26. If you do try it out, please let me know what you find :)

[@TommyLUTommyLingL]

@@SnapLaunch cool thx man)

[@nickystudio]

if I want to record that to sequencer how do I do that? thank you.

[@laenas79]

Did you figure out the answer for that in the end?

[@btam_13]

Hopefully this is still active. I'm at 1:50 in the video and at the stage where you right click to create clothing data, I cannot seem to get any right click menu to appear. Is there something wrong with the mesh or is there some silly reason why I am unable to select?

[@natl9361]

Make sure "Section Selection" is selected/highlighted orange first! Its the button on the top bar with a T-posing mannequin icon.

[@btam_13]

@@natl9361 Man I'm a dummy. Thanks!

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

Thanks fellas...👍

[@bkm1104]

nice tutorial I subscribed! if you have a time can you make a tutorial for drawing flag system so I can make my own flags in game?

[@SnapLaunch]

Thanks for subbing! With your suggestion, is the idea to be able to draw onto a flag in UE4 or is something else?

[@bkm1104]

@@SnapLaunch oh sorry I thought it will be great if I can change the words on flag in games real time.(something like this but in simple way? th-cam.com/video/apXxD7WoLSk/w-d-xo.html ) but maybe it is whole different programming thing. it is always difficult to make my idea to real. thank you for your tutorial and sorry for my bad english

[@SnapLaunch]

@@bkm1104 Thanks for the example. Perhaps something like this would help? th-cam.com/video/TVZS7BHSEkY/w-d-xo.html
No need to apologise for your English, you communicate well. Thanks for making the effort. Cheers, Ben

[@bkm1104]

@@SnapLaunch Thank you so much That would helpful!

[@CaptainX2012]

Where does the mesh come from?

[@SnapLaunch]

I made it :)

[@nghtrunnr7378]

at 1:55 i can't select the mesh no matter what i do

[@Givethought]

Don’t work in sequencer only in play mode

[@decryptedchaos]

What i would have rather seen, was how to export that flag from blender, and not Maya, 3DS or anything else autode$$$$k since i no longer have licenses for any of them. and exporting/importing skeletal meshes from blender is.. well painful in my experience, sections missing, etc etc.

[@peter486]

this was back in 2020 dud anyone come and help? :)

[@SnapLaunch]

Hahaha - gold! I'll send out a search party and report back! :P

[@Restart-Gaming]

How come every video even a newbie can make is about simulate a flag what no one knows how to use this for let say CLOTHES why is it always a flag

[@bhuwannepathya]

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