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Question About Flexi Plants/Trees "Twitching" in the Wind

Mikey Fairlane
Mikey's Plant World CEO
Join date: 19 Oct 2006
Posts: 13
12-23-2006 12:04
Hope someone can help me out! I build 4 prim plants and trees, and recently decided to add flexi settings to them, but when I get done, they "twitch" meaning that one of the prims instead of slowly blowing with the wind, twitches back and forth instead.
I have gone through almost every setting I can think of in the flexi settings, but they still seem to twitch.
This is driving me crazy! Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Or let me know which settings work.
These are the flexi settings that I started with (with a 4 prim plant/tree)....

Softness - 0.000
Gravity - 0.300
Drag - 2.000
Wind - 0.100
Tension - 1.500

Thank You in advance for any help you can give me!
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Mikey
Foo Spark
alias Bathsheba Dorn
Join date: 8 Nov 2006
Posts: 110
12-23-2006 15:19
From: Mikey Fairlane

Softness - 0.000
Gravity - 0.300
Drag - 2.000
Wind - 0.100
Tension - 1.500

Thank You in advance for any help you can give me!


Try jacking drag up to 6 or 8. IMO this setting is greatly underused and accounts for a lot of twitchy flexi's out there. Also you might want to set gravity 0 -- trees aren't generally saggy?
Chosen Few
Alpha Channel Slave
Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
12-23-2006 16:27
From: Foo Spark
trees aren't generally saggy?

You never know. He could be making a weeping willow.
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Clayton Cinquetti
Registered User
Join date: 17 May 2005
Posts: 38
12-24-2006 15:49
My problems were slightly different, but for my field of wheat (see screen shot at secondlifehowto.com) I used the settings below. I jacked up the tension because my wheat kept falling over.

Softness - 2.000
Gravity - 0.200
Drag - 2.000
Wind - 0.100
Tension - 8.00