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Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro. Many of them are still a bit wider than they should be. I'm working on it. :-) Enjoy!

Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro. Enjoy!

Includes some from the Magritte museum.

At least, I think these are still all Bruges. Some near the end might be back in Amsterdam instead? It was a geographically confusing vacation. ;-)

Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro. Enjoy!

Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro. Several are rather wider than ideal. Enjoy!

Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro. The first few are the horsemen of the apocalypse. Enjoy!

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but most are. :-) Enjoy!

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but most are. I'm quite pleased with how this batch turned out but for one or two. :-) Enjoy!

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but most are. I'm quite pleased with how this batch turned out. :-) Enjoy!

So I made these curtains a decade or more ago (possibly using cloth sim - I don't even remember now). Now I want to be able to open them to animate walking thru. I want to open them as if they're being drawn up on the sides, not like they're being slid along the poles. (I.e., like the second picture.) It doesn't have to look photoreal or anything, but I want to be able to keyframe the motion from closed to open and back.

I'm figuring either a shape key, with sculpting with cloth brushes (restricted to Y axis) after pinning the top verts. (Which I tried, but it turns out I'm Really Bad at sculpting. :-) It also doesn't keep the same sort of vertical drape.

Or a cloth simulation with some sort of hook or other collision object after pinning the top verts, then turning it into a shape key? I tried setting it up simply and it was ... messy enough that I thought I'd see if there's a better way.

Everything I google for just gives me sliding-along-the-curtain-rod instructions at best.

Any ideas on what would be the easiest approach? Am I missing something easier? Is there a google term that isn't occurring to me that would provide better results? Is there a way to do this with bones, or hooking vert groups?

Thanks in advance!

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but some are. :-) Enjoy! Don't keep scrolling if your boss is looking over your shoulder.

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but some are. :-) Enjoy!

Note: Contains statues with boobies. Don't scroll if your boss is hypersensitive to such.

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but some are. :-) Enjoy!

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but some are. :-) Enjoy!

Mostly churches and museums. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but some are. :-) Enjoy!

Mostly churches, museums, and the ones with flowers around are from the Tulip festival. Cell phone, cha-cha, stereo maker pro, not all are excellent but some are. :-) Enjoy!

Taken with cell phone, cha-cha, and stereo photo maker pro. NSFW for themes of torture and cannibalism. Oh, and one butt of a Greek myth that should have been in that other post. :-)

Enjoy!

Taken with cell phone, cha-cha, and stereo photo maker pro. NSFW for themes of torture and cannibalism.

A couple of statues of Greek religious people, and a (rather bizarre) paving stone from the Red Light District in Amsterdam. Just weird fun stuff. Enjoy!

No real reason for these. Just fun photos to look at.

Taken on a cell phone with a cha-cha and stereo maker pro.

Taken with cha-cha on cell phone and stitched with StereoMakerPro. Enjoy!