Cloth brush scale on one axis like curtain

Is there a way to “cloth brush” my mesh to achieve shape like this please:


Like a scale brush, and there i can give axis X and then as i brushing (with large size brush) the mesh should start folding on X axis only with small “wrinkles”.

I don’t know much about sculpting. I answer with a possible workaround in case anyone would be interested:

This looks like something that you could use a specially-made stencil for. “specially-made” means it would have to have be in 32-bit precision, such as an EXR file. The 32b would be needed so you would have enough gradient detail when you scale the stencil up.

The way I imagine this would work:

  1. make a plane with a narrow wave texture, but make sure the gradient between 1-0 are smooth
  2. bake/render it and save as a full-depth (32-bit) EXR image
  3. load as stencil
    3.1 scale and position to gradually sculpt the main vertical folds
  4. sculpt normally and drag folds horizontally a little

(if Blender can use textures / procedural images as stencil without saving them first, that might work better)

Luckily Blender is very good with EXR files and this might even be possible. But again, I don’t know of a “brush” or… how ever this would be made “properly.”

Hey Kogomat!

Thank You for the reply.
I’m looking after something similar like this:

but with scaling on 1 axis only.
I’m not interested making foldings that manually as You suggested, but thank You for the idea!