Modeling and Styling	Parametric Effects	Animation	Rendering	Import/Export
Edit Guides _Modifier	Surface Comb _Modifier	MassFX Dynamics _Modifier	MentalRay _Object	Alembic Export _Exporter
Ground Strands _Modifier	Curling _Modifier	Strand Multiplier _Modifier	Strand Animation _Modifier	Ornatrix Hair _Exporter
Guides from Surface _Modifier	Frizz _Modifier		Fast Ray Tracer _Atmospheric	Shading and Materials
Guides from Mesh _Object	Hair Clustering _Modifier		Accurate Ray Tracer _Atmospheric	MR Hair _{MR Shader}
Guides from Shape _Modifier	Guide Clustering _Modifier		Hair Draw _Effect	Hair Texture _{2d Map}
Hair from Guides _Modifier	Propagation _Modifier		Render Settings _Modifier	Cheap Shader _Shader
Baked Guides _Object	Gravity _Modifier		Shadow Maps _Shadow	Expensive Shader _Shader
Baked Hair _Object	Length _Modifier		Raytraced Shadows _Shadows	Translucent Shader _Shader
Hair Presets _Object	Detail _Modifier		Deep Shadow Maps _Shadow
Hair Preset Maker _Object	Symmetry _Modifier		VRay _Modifier
Guides from Guide Mesh _Modifier
Guides on Spline _Modifier
Hair Shells _Modifier
Mesh from Strands _Modifier
Hair from Mesh Strips _Object

Accessing Hair Rendering Information

Rendering Information

When rendering Ornatrix hair extra information such as it's thickness at various points is required. Ornatrix SDK contains a set of interfaces designed to bring you this additional information.

IHairRenderingPropertiesContainer

IHairRenderingPropertiesContainer is an interface (found in IHairRenderingPropertiesContainer.h) which provides rendering properties for a hair object per-group. Because a hair object can have strands in different groups (for example, if propagation modifier is used "stem" strands can be on group 0 while "branch" strands can be in group "1") it is important to access these properties by their group.

To access this interface use:

auto props = static_cast<IHairRenderingPropertiesContainer*>( hairObject->GetInterface( IHairRenderingPropertiesContainerInterfaceID ) );

You can then use HairRenderingProperties(...) method to access rendering properties on per-group level. If an invalid index (or default parameter) is passed you will get the default render properties (applicable to all groups).

IHairRenderingProperties

Each IHairRenderingProperties interface allows you to access render properties of hair strands such as thickness of strands. To get the final width for a strand you need to pre-multiply the global width value with value extracted from Texmap, and value extracted from ICurve along the strand length.

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