Modeling with Cloth Simulation in Blender
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange users point people to it when they need to shape fabric, curtains or canopies with cloth simulation, and when troubleshooting that workflow.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2014 to 2019.
What it is
A 42-minute CG Cookie tutorial from 2013 showing how to use Blender's cloth simulation as a modeling tool for fabric objects such as curtains and drapes. It walks through pinning vertices, running the sim and applying the result.
What people said
Recommends Stephen · 2014-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “How can I manipulate the properties of a pattern as a fabric using Blender?”
The basic answer is that you need to use shape keys. This excellent tutorial by Kent (not me ;-) gives you some ideas and examples: [this video] , download from cgcookie [LINK]
Recommends Stan · 2019-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “How can I make a bed canopy?”
Cloth sim is the way to go. Here is a good tutorial: Modeling with Cloth Simulation in Blender [this video] I am sure you can adapt his techniques to this.
Cites Anson Savage · 2015-06 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Cloth simulation staying in plane”
The problem was that I was trying to do a cloth simulation inside a scene with several objects already inside. Many people had the same problem in the comments on this video: Modeling with Cloth Simulation in Blender [this video] The trick was to do the cloth sim in a different scene and then import the mesh into the scene you want to use it in.
Cites Anson Savage · 2015-06 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Cloth simulation staying in plane”
I'm working on a bathroom interior, and I was trying to shape the shower curtain by following this tutorial: Modeling with Cloth Simulation in Blender [this video] For some reason, after I selected the pinned verticies group, and ran the simulation, the cloth was affected by the pinned verticies, and also sagged, but all the movement was done in one plane, so there were no wrinkles. How can I fix this? Here is an image of one of my tests so you can see what is happening: Here are my Physics Settings (As far as I know, they are the same as what he has, and also, I have animated shape keys so that the cloth would fold). Here is the .blend: [LINK]
Cites rockNroll87q · 2015-11 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Black rendered images with Cycler and Blender Render”
I'm trying to fallow this [this video] tutorial, but I am only rendering black images (or videos). I only have downloaded the file and tried to render with Blender 2.74 on MacOSX and Blender 2.76 on Windows 7 (and also old versions of blender). I already checked lights, camera, layers and scene. I also tried both Cycles and Blender Render. I cannot find the problem!