Flag Like Animation On A Logo From Illustrator

Good evening folks!

I'm pretty new to C4D so bare with me here. I have a logo that has been designed in illustrator. I have brought it into c4d and I'm trying to make the logo appear to waving in the wind...like a flag. I've seen plenty of tutorials for how to use the cloth tag and so on, but how do I apply that cloth to a spline from illustrator? And how do I give the splines a color/material? I thought that I could just apply an extrude NURB to the splines and then apply the cloth to that but the cloth wouldn't work on the extrude nurbs. Every tutorial I've seen seems to apply the cloth to a plane and regretfully my logo is not a plane.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Thank you for this. A ton. I'm curious though, in the second example in the file, you have applied a material to the extnurb for the text. The color only shows up on the extruded area though (the z axis under the movement property). How do I get the color to show up on the face of the extnurb and not just in the extruded area? In addition, I have three extnurbs under one connector and each nurb is supposed to have a different different color. Not only can I not get the first nurb to have color on the face, but I can't get the other 2 to display any color at all.

Thanks and I hope this was clear enough.

here's a sample file with screen shots of what I am seeing. I'm in r12

Thanks again for your help.

the other possibility is to have only one Extrude per Connect Object and place the texture on the Connect - then you have to control where the Extrudes end up on the plane with the Surface Deformer's U and V settings