What's New

Ornatrix App is the standalone version of Ornatrix - a complete hair, fur, and feather grooming application that runs on its own, without a host 3D program. It brings the Ornatrix grooming engine into a dedicated, purpose-built environment.

Highlights

A dedicated grooming application - the full Ornatrix operator set in an application designed entirely around hair work, rather than a plugin inside a host. See About Ornatrix App.
Real-time Vulkan viewport - a fast, GPU-accelerated view with perspective and orthographic views, multiple cameras, and an optional multi-window mode. See Viewport Navigation and Display.
Operator stack and node graph - build grooms as a linear stack or as a branching network, two views of the same groom. See The Operator Stack and The Node Graph.
Interactive grooming tools - brushes, draw-strands, surface combing, parting, and texture painting, all in the viewport. See Working with the Grooming Tools.
Reusable presets - save and re-apply sets of values on tools, operators, and grooms, with each groom's presets stored inside the groom file. See Editing Operator Properties.
Built-in physically based rendering - preview grooms with two physically based renderers: the interactive Cycles path tracer (Realistic display mode) and AMD Radeon ProRender with MaterialX materials (Raytraced display mode). See Rendering with Cycles and Rendering with ProRender.
Pipeline interchange - import meshes and hair from Alembic and USD, and export finished hair back out. See Importing and Exporting Geometry.
Self-contained groom files - save complete sessions as portable .oxz archives that can embed their assets and open in any version of Ornatrix. See Saving and Loading Grooms.
Python scripting - automate and extend the application from the built-in console. See Scripting with the Python Console.
Localized interface - available in several languages. See Changing the Interface Language.

Getting started

If you are new to the App, start with About Ornatrix App, then Installing and Uninstalling and Your First Groom: Grooming Basics.

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