I make almost $1000 every month selling 3D stl files. I learned almost everything I know from the Blender Guru channel. If it were not for your tutorials and the fact that Blender is generously free, I probably would have starved or turned to crime during the lockdowns. From the end of January until now, I have kept the bills paid and my family fed off of what I learned from you. To think, it all started with a tourus and a donut model. As soon as I can afford it, I am coming for more poliigon textures.

I'm sure he's making a house to fill it with donuts

Alright we're going to make a complete home here. 🏡

Awesome! Thanks for this Andrew!

5:55 To insert the Keyframe for the shape key hower over the value field and hit "I", then repeat at frame 50 after changing it to a value of 1

For creating the pleats you can save time and work by selecting the first vertex of the first pleat, shift 7 vertices away for the next pleat, then use Control+Shift+Numpad+ to continue the selection pattern across the mesh. Repeat this for the second vertex of each pleat and so on, this way you only need to modify the mesh for one pleat and it will be copied along the mesh.

This is literally what I need right now for my project! Thank you so much Blender Guru for your architecture and interiors related tutorials!

Nevermind the current topic, I would like to say some general things considering your videos. I've been following you tutorials for months (perhaps even years) and I learned great things about modelling, animating, techniques etc etc mostly from your dedication and effort. You simply hit the sweet spot we all need to improve. Thank you very much, you're so outta of this world. Keep it up!

Okay this is freaky... literally just yesterday I was banging my head against the wall trying to make realistic curtains for a project. And turns out you uploaded this that same day. Andrew you mind reader!!

I just wanna call out how easy you make this stuff to learn. Its so overwhelming at times. Even my young children(between the ages of 8 and 11) all really enjoy your friendly attitude and thorough teachings. Thanks for taking something potentially hugely complicated and making it a lot easier for a lot of people.

your sense of humor whilst explaining (in a very clear way) makes learning even more fun. thank you!!

Blender Guru is the very first site I consulted on opening my very first Blender program and for all the years I have learned he has been both inspirational and a blessing to me. Much thanks extended to you and your family and do enjoy the Christmas season.

Ten years have passed since the first video you posted on KZfaq. Thank you very much for your help. I just got acquainted with Blender and my situation is like the ninth video you posted 😁

Thanks Andrew. This series is amazing. I really appreciate all the attention to detail and information. Longtime fan and your content is better than ever!

Me : Hits play button after adding keyframes. My computer : This little mistake is gonna cost you 52 years..!

Hey Andrew! I hope you don't stop making uploads. Your stuff has helped me learn a lot.

Tbh, I had checked out most other videos because I needed to make a realistic Curtain and this here, this just saved me big time. Thank you sir!!

I love your tutorials because unlike other tutorials you explain each and every thing you do

Thank You so much. Was desperately looking for this for my interior scenes, so happy for timing.

I‘ve been waiting for THIS! Thank you, mate! 🤠

I absolutely love your tutorials, If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be working in the industry, it's not using blender, but it's where it all started, with the doughnut. thanks again.

this helped me as a newbie blender user. as a 11yr old, this is very helpful and i will continue to use this. thank you.

Great! Your tutorials are so helpful and well explained. Thank you!

I am working on a scene which has a curtain. I was searching for some tutorials on how to make a curtain in blender. And the Guru is here with another tutorial. Thanks Buddy ! 😀 I Really Love Your Work. 👍

Eendroo (Aussie) is the best tutor ! always goes way beyond normal tuts into the nitty gritty stuff - love it !

You read my mind Andrew, just the information I was looking for. Thanks bro

Nice tutorial, Andrew! Keep them coming.

from my testing. using shapekeys is sometimes very buggy. i use hook modifier instead. its more animation friendly too . edit also note if you dont want to make a soild fabric to keep things low poly. you can use translucent shader instead it works better for that case.

You are amazing. At one point I was quitting learning blender until i saw your videos.Thumbs up

Oh wow, I never ended my bedroom project from weeks ago because I couldn't do the curtains properly. Thank you as always Andrew!

The old style big tutorials are back. I like it

loving this and thank you very much!!!!! signing up now!

The thing I like abt ur tutorials is that they are very detailed. thanks for that. please make more tutorials.

These tutorials are too useful! It would be nice to have some tips for the outside too! Heavy scene management, tips for creating realistic grass and for a photorealistic exterior

Thanks, I feel like a connoisseur of curtains now. My life is complete, my spirit devoted and my body ready.

Thank you Andrew!

Thanx for your tutorial. I just needed to make 5 curtains for my scene and it was the perfect way to learn how to do it !

Fantastic tutorial. I made some lovely theatre drapes. Thanks so much.

I've waited months for a tutorial like this. I haven't watched it yet, but I know this is the one.

I love how blender guru is aiming for the archviz blenders ^^ , thats the missing type of videos in KZfaq. I wish you do some sverchok videos someday

I have been seeing you vids from the 2 million special vid youre vids are amazing and when I downloaded blender I did not have any idea but because of that donut series it was super easy

Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am learning a lot.

Thx Andrew. Perfect and very useful as usual!!!

I was working on a personal project and didnt know how to make curtains. I knew this video existed and it was the first thing that came into my mind😁.

Nice job Mr. Guru, please continue with the interior items, they are very interesting to make

Subsurface scattering is *not* a replacement for translucency. I recommend using diffuse (or no spec principled) mixed with translucency, with a slightly darker and more saturated translucency (rays gets more absorbed - tinted - as they pass through the material) - perhaps mixed with geometry/incoming based rough refraction if you need it to catch highlights from the backside. Translucency let light pass through the surface and cause proper shadow on the backside - i.e. a telephone pole on the outside would create a shadow on the backside of the curtain. Translucency is the same as standard diffuse, except it operates only on the backsiding face of the lightsource. Tweaking SSS radius you can get a (not good looking) shadow, but you can't get it to pass light through. Unless you really know what you're doing, using a mix shader to mix them together rather than adding them to conserve energy. Except on the rim in some cases to add the appearance of thickness, I don't bother with solidify (why add tons of geometry for no good reason?), but I will add a lacing effect using a transparency mask at the end. You may want to modulate the transparency "hole size" depending on viewing angle in order to make up for missing solidify. And unless you want them to catch highlights, I wouldn't bother with fresnel and glossy at all. Yes, theoretically everything has fresnel - on a flat representation of the material. But on fabrics like this the weave makes it so rough fresnel is practically pointless and only serve to reduce light transport (if caustics are turned off). On the modelling side, I'm not sure why go through all that pain. Do one (or better yet plan for it in advance), delete the rest of it and just apply an array modifier with more repeats than you need. Alternatively checker deselect might have been useful. Then redo the vertex group stretching if you prefer the shapekey approach. I prefer the copy scale constraint.x with a line I just change while the animation is playing. Delete the excess vertical strips to get rid of any weird looking corners.

Started from the donut now we here! 🎵 😂 I learned so much from your tutorial and now I'm addicted in doing interior scenes. Thank you! BTW. I'm using a macbook pro 2012 (non-retina) and still surviving. 😂

Man! You always inspire us! Great tutorial, thanks!

Awesome tutorial, thank you

Long time no see... And finally another realastic tutorial.... Thanks.... We're waiting for it

well, my curtain just explodes when I use "self collision"... anyway, Increase the quality steps of object collision and it gets fixed. (Just if you had the same problem)

Always good stuff, thanks!

your tutorials are diffrent than the others, keep going!

For someone who is lazy as me for modelling pleads, I've used checker deselect tab (which you can find at the top of the viewport, next to Object/edit mode sign under Select section) with those settings: Deselected 2, selected 1, offest -2 for plane with 100 subdivs. It gave nearly the same shape you can see in video, but with smaller gaps

Thank you for tutorial.

Try creating cleats using Edit: Select: Checker Deselect. It makes it easy to control the pattern across the pin group working from patterns of deselected, selected, and offset. I wanted to create a gentle sine wave (without Python!) so selected the pin group (the rest was hidden, as you suggested), then used Checker Deselect to set Selected (3), Deselected (5), Offset (eyeball it). I pushed those forward a little bit, generating the start of the pleat into the room. Reselected all, and used Checker Deselect with the same settings but changed the Offset so the three selected were the middle three of the 5 deselected the first time; pushed those sets of three backwards toward the wall/window/screen. Then, to smooth the curves a little, select all, Selected (1), Deselected (7), Offset (eyeball the middle of one of the threes); push that selection group just a little bit further, making a nice rounded curve. Repeat by changing the Offset so the other middle of three can be pushed a little further along its curve. Voila!

Cant wait for archviz tutorial 🙌

You are a genius, thanks a lot

this is great stuff!!!

I've been trying to do this for a long time.. thank you...!!

I love to watch movies like this ;) Thank You Guru!

Nicework man

If you're in 2.9 and the cloth is going haywire, set the top option under Playback to the far left of the animation controls to No Sync. You may need to change a setting in the cloth mod afterwards for it to drop its cache.

thank you so much for this.. lovely and such great help

Oh thanks for sharing this informative stuff.

great as always, your tutorial is excellent, one can learn very much from, TY for sharing Bests

There was another very good curtain tutorial out there ! But im sure Guru is gonna make us regret all the other ones !

Very nice tutorial bud! Thanks :)

WooooW amazing Thank you so much please continue

Thank you For Everything You make Blender Easier

wow...subserf for translucency. Never Thought of that myself. Thank you again

Whoa this guy looks stunning.

Best explained video

Thank you

I tried doing exactly what I see here, and everytime I get to the hitting of the space bar, the curtain just swings down from the right corner to the point where I collapsed the vertex group to. No idea where I messed up.

Thank You

Dude how did you know I am making my own room model and upload this because I am about to start making curtains. Blender guru it is second time you guessed the guide I want XD nice

For the creases you can use checker deselect in the select tab to make that less tedious

I like every single your tutorial. Imagine what happen if blender without Andrew.

thx great vid always

Really amazing, thank you very much 😇👌

Once you have your zigzag, you can select all of the bottom vertices, right click and hit align to grid to straighten them out.

learning blender with someone else: no learning Blender with Blender Guru: Yes

Mesmerizing, as all your tutorials.

I love the title... Ah yess I’d like to learn how to Realistic curtains.

I often feel like blender tutorials are just 10 year later posted copies of 3ds max tutorials. All the functionality and how to do this is exactly the same no critic on blender or blender guru, it just feels weird. Love that theres free software for this

When you scale it back up using the top row, when I unhide the rest of the mesh, it doesn't update like yours. So I can't scale it since when I do scale the whole thing, something kinda springs it back to before the scale.

thanks i learned allot from you

Thanks 👍

I love you Andrew Price- you still use cycles wow! I love cycles so much

Nice tutorial. I like it. How would you go about baking the textures, normals, and displacements in orde to make the resulting high-poly curtains into a low-poly version?

Hi Andrew, thanks for this video, very helpful. Is there any way to leverage this kind of functionality to stop my doughnut sprinkles colliding, it's driving me mad my sprinkles intersect ! Cheers

what can I say...u r the best!

Ahh yes, I’ve aliased wanted to realistic curtains in blender! (For those who missed it, the title was wrong for a bit) - jokes aside, thanks for the video!

Can you share the light/portal values? I can't get the same results as yours in the video when adding a room. Thanks.

awesome, thank you so much : )

dope as ever indeed...

Thank you so much.Very useful)))

Sir can you please make a character design tutorial series , including everything which we can use in character designing... Including some animations too... Like of body movements.

I am so grateful that i know blender guru and i am learning from him.when i earn my first from blender i will make donation ☺☺