Creating a Banner or Flag using Blender Physics Simulator

A detailed tutorial all the way through to the point where it is a 3D printable object, covering all the potential pitfalls and a lot of the little things that can cause problems.

00:00 Intro and pole
01:52 Banner setup
05:13 Blender Physics
29:43 3D printability

[Narper]

Thank you so much for your videos. Combined knowledge from this one and the one with lattice and the results are so cool!

[shenrafonda]

Thank you so much for this indepth Tutorial. You cover all the things that Beginners need and what i was searching.

[chrissoohoo]

Yo I just wanted to say: Thank you so much for your channel and videos! This type of help is exactly what I've been looking for.

[richardokeeffe]

Couldn’t cope without 3D builder! Great work as always

[SkonkBot]

For 3D printing there really is no need to boolean/join the separate objects together. The slicer software(s) are all far more capable at dealing with overlapping manifold objects than they are at dealing with non-overlapping but also non-manifold objects (which boolean more often than not creates).

I long since stopped bothering trying to join everything together like this, and I almost never have issues printing them. I found wasting time doing booleans, fixing the issues it creates, finding more issues etc... was just not worth the effort since they will slice absolutely fine if you just keep them all as overlapping parts. I had way more errors in the slicer back when I did join them.

The final STL file is also much easier for people to edit since linked selection will continue to work on all the unjoined parts; so if you are sharing the files (selling, giving away etc) the end user will have a much easier time modifying the objects if they need to.

[chaos-design]

Can't wait to get back from vacation 😅. So many ideas with this already. Thanks for the video.

[joshsteffens]

This was a great video - as others have commented, im looking for a way to add a logo to the flag - in my case it would be more 3d than just an image, so using a knife projection isnt as useful. is the flag going to be too complex to use conform object?

[LegacyLabyrinth]

Man this is fire! Thank you very much!

[Malak]

How would you go about adding iconography to the deformed flag based on when the flag is flat before the sim?

[addepaddes]

Lmao, your computer didn’t like this video

[jangohemmes]

Could you do a tutorial on how you get the viewport to look so pretty like Zbrush?

[MrCrazymmogamer]

Could you import that checked/fixed by 3d builder object into blender and run 3d print addon tool on it, I'm just wondering if it will find any issues, or it doesnt matter at this point as long as our slicer doesnt show any errors?

[galan]

And what about a clasic flag, or even one that is... like rotten (threadbare). Like the one on the skaven wheel.

[dcad]

great tutorial, will you make one for a robe?

[Guardiansofwiltshire]

As someone who is just getting into Blender from Fusion 360, this kind of thing will make my list much easier!! Could you show how to do it with a triangular banner?

[marcoz]

Amazing stuff! :D I need to do a decorated flag, an embossed one, similar to many GW models, with legion-specific iconography. Do you have/know of a tutorial on that too? I mean using, vector graphics to add to the flag before starting to manipulate it as you do :) ?

[chrisjohn]

Ofc thing comes out just after i've made my banners.. :D well your method would have been much easier. ah well.