How to Make Realistic Curtains in Blender (Tutorial)
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange users link it when asking about or answering cloth simulation problems with pinned groups, especially the shape-key technique for pleating and opening or closing curtains.
Recommended by 1 people across 2 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What it is
A 40-minute Blender tutorial by Andrew Price of Blender Guru on making realistic curtains with the cloth simulator, using a pinned vertex group and shape keys. It covers pleats, detailing, fabric texturing, translucency and the curtain rail, aimed at archviz renders in Cycles.
What people said
Recommends GordonM · 2020-11 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Cloth sim sag between pins”
By sheer chance Youtube threw up [this video] as a suggestion. He's making curtains in this instead of a wall hung tapestry but there looks like there might be some really useful stuff in there. I haven't tried it yet but I'm thinking using a shape key to slightly narrow the image at the top might be a big help.
Recommends GordonM · 2020-12 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Cloth sim sag between pins”
I think I finally cracked it. Using the answer provided by lemon [LINK] along with a couple of additional sources, I worked out that using hooks was the way to go. Blender Guru's curtain tutorial [this video] Quy Tran's curtain tutorial [LINK] My first attempt used the shape key feature as mentioned in the Blender Guru video, which worked pretty well, but had the annoying issue that when I wanted to freeze the results in place by applying the cloth modifier, I'd get an error message saying you can't apply modifiers to meshes with shape keys. I could work around that by deleting the shape keys but this was an extra step that I would rather not deal with. The second attempt used the technique of ho
Cites Gordon Brinkmann · 2021-11 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “manually play with the physics”
Hey Alex, I don't know, if you're talking about this tutorial by Andrew Price: How to Make Realistic Curtains in Blender [this video] he's not playing manually with the cloth sim, he's using shape keys with keyframe animation, just like Chris shows in his answer.
Cites user13877 · 2022-10 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Top right part of pinned group is not scaled”
I am doing this Blender Guru tutorial [this video] on Making a Curtain.He shows a method for closing the curtain from right to left. I cannot get that working. I created a plane and subdivided that 100 times. Then I selected the top row of vertices and made that a Vertex Group. Then I clicked Cloth and made this Group the Pinned Group. I then created a basis Shape Key and a Key1.Then I made the the top left vertex the pivot point and scaled all the vertices of the Vertex Group towards the selected vertex (50%). I set the value of key1 to 1. Then I inserted a keyframe at 1 and a keyframe at 50 seconds. Then I played the animation. Somehow the top right part (before scaling) is not part of the top