What's New in Version 5 

• Table of contents
• What's New in Version 5
  • New Features
  • Fixes

 

New Features 

• New Push Away from Surface modifier
• New Guides from Shape Object
• New MaxScript function and toolbar button to (de|a)ttach selected strand objects to their surfaces
• Ability to toggle longitudal and directional changes by Surface Comb modifier
• Propagation modifier uses per-vertex transforms instead of calculating its own
• New Generate Guide Data modifier
• Allowed Hair from Guides Modifier to use guide channel to control guide distribution
• New option to mirror all brushing changes along current viewport's vertical/horizontal center, or along the mesh's center.
• Added and simplified channel group visualization for guides
• New"Import multiple splines" option to Edit Guides modifier
• New button to create new per-guide channel and assign it to a specific strand parameter
• New button to create new vertex color channel and assign it to a specific strand parameter
• New Hair from Particles object
• Implemented sinks detaching/reattaching in Surface Comb modifier
• Allowed detaching roots in Guides from Surface modifier
• Using "Remember Clusters" button in Hair Clustering modifier
• Changed Hair from Guides modifier root generation to have viewport preview be a subset of render hairs
• New Guides from Hair modifier
• New Cache modifier capable of storing output hair and guides if input stops being valid
• Allowed user to add a groom which has base curves and ground strands modifier to a mesh
• New "Apply Amount" parameter in Edit Guides modifier
• Updated Strand Animation modifier to allow Alembic animation time rescaling and handling of different point counts
• Allowed assigning guide channel values through a new Edit Guides modifier rollout
• Brush settings in Edit Guides modifier are now independent for each brush
• Added pen pressure sensitivity to Edit Guides modifier brushes
• New "viewport preview only" option in Hair Clustering modifier
• Added tooltips to all hair clustering modifier parameters to clarify their function
• Added minimum and maximum allowed values to Length modifier
• New Strand Group option in Strand Multiplier modifier
• New buttons to cycle through a selection of hair strips
• Right clicking while dragging a brush in Edit Guides now cancels current action
• New strand group option in Mesh from Strands modifier
• When Remember Hair Positions option is on viewport uses the cached hairs
• Moved Edit Guides guide options into own rollout, make them persistent, and add tooltips
• Moved external collision object selection from Gravity modifier to Push Away From Surface modifier
• New "Use World Coordinates" option to Alembic exporter
• Baked Hair object displays a percentage of render hair, viewport preview is generated on the fly
• Curve diagrams can save and load presets
• New symmetry options in Surface Comb modifier
• Grooms can have a "Sphere" base object primitive, minimizing groom file size and simplifying most of them
• Ground Strands modifier is assigned base surface as distribution object when creating a groom
• Made Strand Multiplier modifier and Push Away from Surface modifier part of hair groom
• Switched to using Detach button toggle in Ground Strands modifier instead of Ground button

 

Fixes 

• Clustering followed by strand frizz on a deforming mesh causes popping
• Length modifier applies to strands with group 0 in all cases
• Cloning object with SurfaceCombModifier does not preserve sinks
• Texture coordinates not passed to V-Ray when using Hair from Mesh Strips
• Clustering takes too much time for many strands due to Max array storage
• Use guide distance and guide distance options in HFG don't do anything
• Collapse All for a large hair stack sometimes crashes Max
• SDK zip file is missing required headers
• Removed: Unused sub-object levels in hair clustering modifier
• Changed Hair from Guides root generation to have viewport preview be a subset of render hairs
• Crash when applying Strand Propagation modifier on top of hair and changing distribution type
• Hair from guides generated flickering hair when guides have near-0 length
• Grooms dialog not showing icons for entries in Max 2017
• Near-zero length strands cause popping when meshed
• Crash when reducing guide point count before Edit Guides modifier and brushing guides
• Strand groups are not automatically updated by HairFromGuidesModifier
• All topology based orientation options are on by default and have tooltips
• Frizz causes jaggy results when applied above dynamics or wavy hair
• Cull back-facing roots option does not affect brushing
• Edit guides sub-object mode icons not displayed clearly in Max 2017
• Hide and Freeze guides options in Edit Guides modifier always hide and freeze all strands on first try
• When Show End Result is on and Hide Backfacing is on the Edit Guides gizmo does not hide backfacing guides
• Turning off "Root Transforms" option in Hair form Guides produces incorrect hair shape
• Crash when deleting guides in a multi-layered Edit Guides modifier
• Crash when removing surface comb sinks in some loaded scenes
• Surface comb produces assertions/crash sometimes when only one sink is present
• Unknown System Exception error followed by a crash sometimes when adding hair to curves
• Edit Guides control points become detached from guides and don't snap back when move operation is canceled
• Hair From Guides State Not Greyed-out accordingly to "Remember Rooots" position.
• Crash when detaching roots of hair which has Edit Guides modifier in it
• Brushing produces incorrect results when in Zoom and Pan viewport mode
• Hair from mesh strips crash when applying FFD to hair strips
• Move brush not using view plane when not in surface mode
• Removed 32-bit support
• Crash when changing Target Channel in Ox Generate Guide Data
• Crash when opening some old scenes (Bat example)
• Ornatrix: HairClusteringModifier::Data::Apply time message spams listener
• Crash and missing guides update after sink deletion
• 'GetString' function in "Ornatrix_DllEntry.cpp" incorrectly uses WinAPI function `LoadString`
• Edit guides does not show groups created by Strand Propagation modifier
• Propagated guides don't update when brushing the stem guide in Edit Guides
• Unable to create the sinks in Surface Comb modifier
• Strand animation modifier load dialog gives erratic options
• Errors when creating grooms from certain modifier configurations
• Edit Guides gizmo does not update properly with propagated guides
• `SurfaceCombModifier::DrawAndHit` crashes sometimes
• When brushing and undoing in Edit Guides modifier incoming strand channels are reset
• Render flickering when twist is used in guide clustering

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