Crazy Wind

[WatchMotion]

Hi all,

I'm a little confused on the new wind feature - I see in the demos, that Victor has provided, the wind settings are much higher 50 / 40 / 20 roughly for strength, amp, and freq. I'm setting up a forest of pine trees with wind and those setting are much more like a hurricane level of wind than what I see in the demo. When I pare down the settings the arrow is way smaller than what I see in the demo... Just wondering if there's some preference or something weird I need to correct? Or maybe it's because I run a mac...? I'm still able to achieve the look I'm after but I was just curious as to why the settings are so different for me.

Link to dummy project.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f3bxi82hu0kw1 ... .moho?dl=0

[synthsin75]

The wind interacts with the dynamic settings for each bone. So you likely need higher dynamic settings, like something around 6/6/3. If Victor's video shows it, check what his dynamic settings are.

[WatchMotion]

Ahhhh! That's it, I think they just cut away before showing him change that in the video example that I've seen. Thanks!

[arglborps]

I still think that the current maximum wind strength at 100 is too weak. When I rigged my character who has floppy fins on his head, I set the bone dynamics so that it would move and bend in a natural way when he moves quickly.

Character without wind only dynamic bones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h98NvfNdd5Q

When I set the wind to 100 here and add some turbulence it seems like a medium breeze. Changing the dynamic bone attributes to a higher level isn't an option, since that would also make the character's head fins flutter around way too much when moving his head. I think it would be good to be able to crank wind strength up to 400 or so, because if you want some kind of hurricane wind you'd need something like that.

Same with wind at 100 and turbulence at 75 (I think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvrhzfZJno

That's my electric fan at "mid" setting at best.

[synthsin75]

I still think that the current maximum wind strength at 100 is too weak.

You can mod the wind tool to allow for higher values. Just copy lm_wind.lua (and the tool cursor and png) to your custom content folder, open the copy in a text editor, like Notepad, and either look for line 257 or search for "self.strength:SetValue(f)".
Just change that line and the one above it from:

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			f = 100
			self.strength:SetValue(f)

...to:

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			--f = 100
			--self.strength:SetValue(f)