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Ephere's complete hair, fur, and feather solution is now on Maya! Ornatrix for Maya has a non-destructive hair pipeline, artist-friendly grooming tools and a rich multi-purpose toolset. Ornatrix fits Maya like a glove!
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
New Features in V4
Version 4 expands greatly on Ornatrix Maya V3 in nearly all aspects: the GUI, performance, hair display, optimization, and of course features. Here are some of the highlights for the new features:
- Box and unbox
- Boxing of whole or partial stack
- Unboxing a groom operator to extract its constituent operators
- Groom operator, containing multiple internal operators with ability to expose custom parameters
- Graft grooms (easy point and click creation of complete grooms on any character model)
- Built-in eyebrow and hair graft grooms
- Ability to create new grooms directly within Ornatrix
- Performance improvements
- Switched to Embree 3, significantly improving performance in many places
- Improved hair display performance
- Using SIMD optimizations to further improve performance
- Surface Comb operator
- Allow per-sink rotation adjustments
- Added "flow" per-sink parameter
- Channel export
- Added an option to export sink groups to channel data
- Exposed sink length setting to the MEL command
- Added an option to set sink data values based on an absolute length
- Dim strand channel controls in Surface Comb when not used
- Hair from Guides
- Added "Hidden Guide Behavior" option for Hair from Guides (don't generate hair for hidden guides)
- Parting Tool avoids object selection when in Edit mode if there are no parting planes
- Multiple distributions maps to allow procedural density map blending
- Guides from Hair distribution respects distribution map and channel
- Clumping
- Added option to set strand groups based on clump ownership
- "Ground Displaced Roots" option
- Added an option to exclude already clumped strands from the selection
- Added Multiplier map support to the Clump Size parameter
- Normalize operator
- "By group" option separating its application by strand groups
- Added a ramp curve
- Edit Guides operator
- Allow to move only the roots of strands
- Allow the Create brush to add strands per-vertex and per-polygon face
- Preserve strand selection from brush to Control Point/Strand mode
- Added mirroring support to the Draw tool
- Update current Attribute Editor channel value based on selection
- Comb by group options
- Collision detection during combing options
- Specify how selection changes when guides are planted
- Planted guides are interpolated between all selected existing strands (previously only the nearest strand was used)
- Curl operator
- Magnitude and Phase randomness for Curl
- Add range values for Noise Scale parameter
- Filter operator
- Added Channel and Map parameters to control random fraction to Filter operator
- Ground Strands operator
- Added mesh evaluation at specified time when grounding
- Arnold render
- Completed work on Arnold procedural
- Deploy Arnold extension for both MtoA 4 and 5 in Maya 2019+
- Baked hair
- Operator baking now supports baking strand widths
- Implemented full-stack import with BakedHairNode
- Animation cache operator
- Ability to key-frame animation
- Automatic change tracking of select operators
- Using Texture Coordinate method for calculating vertex tangents (improved hair smoothness/consistency across surface)
- Using UV-based vertex tangents by default
- Switch vertex tangents to use Texture Coordinate generation method by default
- Using geodesic distance by default to calculate strand group blending effect
- Added .oxg.zip groom analogs of existing .oxgroom files
- Maya 2023 support
- Updated icons
- Marking/context menus
- Add "Use Procedural Meshes" option to USD groom export
- Updated VrayOxHairMaya to work with VRay 5 SDK
- Product Identifiers -
MPN: Ornatrix Hair v4 for Maya- Product Specifications -
Ornatrix Maya is designed to work on a variety of Maya versions and all operating systems where Maya is supported. However, there exist a minimum requirements where Ornatrix Maya is supported.
- Windows
- Windows 10 or newer
- Maya 2015 or newer. Maya 2020 requires update 1.
- VC 2019 runtime
- Mac
- OS X 10.15 Catalina or newer
- Maya 2016.5 or newer. Maya 2020 requires update 1.
- Linux
- CentOS 6 or 7, corresponding to Maya's requirements
- Maya 2015 or newer
- Limitations
- The dynamics operator won't work on Mac OS. Use Moov Hair Physics operator instead.
- For Maya 2020 Update 1 is required. The initial 2020 release has a bug which affects Ornatrix.
- The GPU Hair Display feature is not supported on Mac because the OpenGL version included on Mac does not support compute shaders.
- Note: Maya LT does not support third party plugins.
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