Creating Fluid Cloth

[bradon]

I need help figuring out a way to make a cloth skirt animate with very curvy "billowing" winds. I am using two air fields in my scene and have them located underneath the skirt and blowing in a direction that angles upwards and back. the direction is animating from left to right like and oscillating fan, and the magnitude is also animating up and down. i get a nice wind effect, that holds the skirt out but i want to get more of a wavy line effect. the way the skirt folds is in a kind of straight angle and i want more of a rolling effect.

my cloth properties are

bend resistance U & V = 1.0
bend rate U & V = 0
Stretch resistance U & V = 40
sheer resistance 15
density = .04
thickness = 1
thick force = 1
cloth friction = .5
cloth and Air damping = .005
static friction .6
dynamic friction .1

this may be hard to tell, but if any cloth masters can help me cuase im in a jam and cant figure it out.

[pyrokinesis]

try applying a turbulance field, something like

Mag: 45
frequency .25
phase X, Y, or Z = time * (whatever direction you want);

a high magnitude and low frequency will give you larger billows in the cloth, you could also layer the effect and add several turbulance fields with settings that compliment eachother.

If you want the cloth to ripple, you may want to increase your bend rate above 0.