Oh yeah and, 'choreographed = static' - ie excluded from the cloth dynamics - did sound a bit perverse to me at at first... but as creating a rigid form, maybe umbrella ribs, maybe the bones in a bat's wing, with cloth simulation following... perhaps I should give up on my beach cafscene and go for gothic horror... Hmmm...

John

PS Or what about a beach umbrella that morphs into a vampire... descisions, descisions, life's a beach isn't it?