Whats New in Version 6
New Operators
- Arnold Modifier
- Normalize Modifier
- Clump Modifier
- Braid Object
- Push Away From Surface Modifier
- Moov Physics Modifier
- Oscillator Modifier
- Resolve Collisions Modifier
- Change Width Modifier
- Alembic Hair Importer
- Adopt External Guides Modifier
- Weaver Object
- Weaver Pattern Object
- Alembic Importer
Improvements
- Strand group patterns
- Edit Guides Modifier
- New optimize and resample strands options to improve brushing and Control Point movement behaviors
- Strand Animation Modifier
- Ability to record animation to an Alembic file
- Ground Strands Modifier
- Resulting strand positions can be blended from root to tip
- Baked Hair Object
- Baked hair can now be grounded
- Up to 5 different Alembic files can be referenced by a Baked Hair Object
- Hair From Mesh Strips Object
- Strip flow directions can be set using strip mesh UV coordinates
- Length Modifier
- Use Scaling option to uniformly scale whole strands to modify their lengths
- Generate Guide Data Modifier
- Added SeExpr expression support, including expression editor and using hair channels and many other hair attributes as variables
- Added texture generation method
- Alembic Export
- Added per-vertex velocity export
- Strand Multiplier Modifier
- Newly generated strands can be grounded
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