These are fully functioning long and matching short curtains 
that have been tested with Superstar and also with Deluxe only 
installed.

There are lots of curtains around that open and close, but
these are different in many ways.

Many other working curtains are made originally from wall 
lights, and light up when they close.  Some even snap open and 
shut several times a night when a Sim wanders around the house, 
just like the lights would go on and off.  These don't, they 
close at dusk, and stay closed until dawn.  They are cloned 
directly from the Maxis originals, not a lamp, which means the 
Z buffers are quite good, so they don't bleed through things in 
front of and behind them.

I have also fixed the alpha sprite problem, so that you can see 
the Sims moving about through the net (sheer) curtains in all 
zooms, and the window frames don't flicker.

These are configurable.  That means you can turn on or off the 
automatic feature that opens them at dawn and closes them at 
dusk.  So you can have them open all the time if you prefer, 
closed all the time, or open and close them manually.

You can choose whether to have them up solid all the time, go 
down with the walls in cutaway mode, see-through backs or 
completely backless.  And you can set each curtain individually 
or update all curtains of the same object ID to be the same.  
And all this is done via the curtain's menu during gameplay.

These curtains may be freely cloned for recolouring, but if 
you hack the code or change the a or z sprites at all, I would 
appreciate it if you either made that clear to anyone who might 
download your version, or else leave my name off them altogether 
so people won't be confused if they're no longer working the same 
as the ones I made.

[Inge Jones (inge@drealm.org.uk)]
