File size: 49.2 MB

Ephere Ornatrix - a complete hair, fur, and feather solution is now on Maya.

Key features:

Procedural hair

Friendly operator stack workflow for building hair

Strand groups for non-destructive filtering

Multiple dynamics options for all types of simulation

Familiar iterative refinement workflow

Easy to use groom preset system

Intuitive modeling tools

Brush, comb, and cut hair

Quickly define flow of fur on a surface with arrows

Frizz, curl, clump, and braid hair procedurally

Style hair by dragging control points

Use mesh strips to generate hair

Tight Maya integration

Works within Maya shape and nodes framework

Friendly shelf for a quick start

Rich 3rd-party renderer support

Easy SDK for access and extensions

Variety of import, export, and interop options

Feathers and foliage

Procedural feathers with control over shape and rotation

Blend multiple UV sets for advanced texturing

Scatter control over materials and shaders

Custom proxy mesh scattering over hair

Propagation controls for growing hair on hair

Whats New:

New: Pop up save file dialog in Animation Cache Node when no file name is selected during recording

New: Added an option to save HFG root data to an Alembic file

New: Added a "Conform to surface" option to Mesh from Strands

New: Added "Record Frame" button to AnimationCacheNode

New: Added viewport preview % to Animation Cache node

New: Added an option to Animation Cache node to record render version of the hairs

New: Added Hair or Guides option for Alembic import

New: Add texture atlas generation to Scatter operator

Fixed: Unable to access any edit mode in Edit Guides with no input strands

Fixed: PropagationOperator: Incorrect values on Distribution Multiplier attribute

Fixed: Crash when Attaching Roots and moving time slider

Fixed: Brush size relative to viewport is consistent on HiDPI displays

Fixed: Edit Guides changes strand shape rotation when only moving roots on surface

Fixed: Hair disappearing after toggling Hair from Guides on and off in some cases

Fixed: The shelf must not be focused when Ornatrix is loaded

Fixed: Octane 2018.1 doesn't render 1% hair in viewport

Fixed: Pressing "Clear Recorded Data" in Animation Cache node doesn't clear data in memory

Fixed: Moving root after shape changes can rotate the strand

Compatibility:

Maya 2014-2019 (64Bit)