Cloth not interacting correctly with forces

[JP Shep]

Hello,

I am trying to make the sails and flags on a pirate ship blow with the wind (that is blowing in the -Z direction).  But no matter what direction I put in the velocity parameter in the wind force node, the cloth only blows in the X direction.

 

I thought at first the issue had to do with constraints or maybe one of the cloth parameters but I've played around with almost everything and I just can't seem to figure it out.  

Can anyone help me figure out what's happening?

 

boat_resized.obj

boat_flags_03.hipnc

[Atom]

Have you checked out the free Dynamic Sail asset on Orbolt?

http://orbolt.com/asset/SideFX::dynamicsail

It has a lot of configurations and seemed to work fine with 15.5 when I tried it out.

[JP Shep]

Wow that looks fantastic, i'll have to try it out.

I would still like to know what's causing my issue though.  It's just a wind force and a cloth object; I don't think it should be causing this much trouble.

[edward]

For something simple like that, see this page: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/cloth/influencing_cloth

[JP Shep]

On 9/19/2016 at 0:37 AM, edward said:

For something simple like that, see this page: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/cloth/influencing_cloth

Well now I just feel silly.  

 

Thank you so much for responding that's exactly what I was missing, now I can continue with my project.

[Hans Peter]

So you are really happy with the results? Are you somehow able to create something like this with FEM? Even the drag model isn't working that fine for me.