2.5x: are force fields working on cloth sim?

Support Animation and Rigging
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I can’t get a response. Are they supposed to work yet? I’m using a relatively recent build.
thanks

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Yes, they are working in 2.54, in the attached .blend file I have a flag that is animated by wind field. The flag is pinned to a flagpole and a plane is off to one side acting as the wind, select each and look in the physics panel.

Randy

Attachments

Flag2.5.blend (157 KB)

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thanks revolt_randy
Seems the force scaling still needs work. 500 out of a max range of 1000 just to get a flag to move is way too high, not to mention the empty stretches to infinity almost.
Just gotta keep tell myself…“2.5 is still beta…2.5 is still beta…”

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What about the force fields charge and Lennard-Jones?

What I’m trying to do is even out a flat mesh
so that the polygons (all quads) are roughly the same area.
It turns out that smoothing doesn’t do that:
it tries to smooth angles, but small quads get smaller and larger ones grow.
But a Lennard-Jones should get edges to about the same length, right?