Flag Animation With Cloth

1. In Front View create plane something like this. Length: 175, Width: 100, Segments 20/20.

2. Then, create cylinder that will present flag holder.



3. Apply Cloth modifier to the plane and go to Group rollout. Click on Make Group, click on Node and after that click on flag holder.



4. Put Gravity and Wind in scene like this.



5. Now, click again on cloth to exit from Group rollout and go to Object Properties and chose one of the presets.





6. Go to Cloth Forces and drag Wind and Gravity from left to the right window.



7. Go to Time Configuration and set end frame to 250.



8. Click on Simulate and your work is done. For more realistic look you could apply shell and turbo smooth modifier to the cloth object.