Ornatrix 3dsmax Documentation

Download in CHM Format

About Ornatrix
- Purpose
- Pricing and Licensing
- Licensing FAQ
- End User License Agreement
- Minimum System Requirements
Getting Started
- Installing and Uninstalling
- Starting and Activating
- Sample Files
- Hair and Guide Viewport Display
What's New
- What's New in Version 6
- What's New in Version 5
- What's New in Version 4
Workflow
- Using Ornatrix Toolbar
- Converting Guides to 3dsmax Splines
- Guide Channels
- Propagation Groups
- Speeding Up MassFX Dynamics
- Working with Xref Assets
Tutorials
- Quick Overview
- Creating Basic Hair
- Feathers modeling, texturing and Dynamics
- Rendering with RebusFarm
- Hair From Particles
- Hair From ZBrush Fibermesh
- Position Reference Pass
Creating Hair
- Grooms
- Guides from Shape Modifier
- Guides from Shape Object
- Guides from Surface
- Guides from Mesh
- Hair from Guides
- Hair From mesh Strips
- Hair Shells
- Mesh from Strands
- Hair Propagation
- Ground Strands
- Guides from Guide Mesh
- Hair from Particles
- Guides from Hair
- Braids
- Weaver
- Weaver Pattern
Styling
- Edit Guides
- Strand Groups
- Clump
- Change Width
- Surface Comb
- Length
- Curling
- Frizz
- Gravity
- Symmetry
- Strand Detail
- Rotate Strands
- Strand Multiplier
- Push Away From Surface
- Normalize
- Adopt External Guides
Animation
- Moov Physics
- Harmonic Oscillator
- MassFX Dynamics
- Strand Animation
- Resolve Collisions
Rendering
- Arnold
- MentalRay
- Fast Ray Tracer
- Accurate Ray Tracer
- Hair Draw
- Shadow Maps
- Raytraced Shadows
- Deep Shadow Maps
- V-Ray Modifier
- V-Ray Standalone Export
- Supported Render Farms
Import/Export
- Alembic Import
- Alembic Export
- Ornatrix Hair
Old/Deprecated
- Hair Clustering
- Guide Clustering
- Render Settings
Shading and Materials
- MR Hair
- Hair Texture
- Cheap Shader
- Expensive Shader
- Translucent Shader
Parametric
- Generate Guide Data
Pipeline Integration
- Baked Guides
- Baked Hair
- Hair Presets
- Hair Preset Maker
- Cache Modifier
- Transplanting hair
Making-ofs
- Making of Geisha by Lars Martinsson
- Making-of Khal Drogo
- Making-of Swamp Creature
- Making of Miss Fortune
- Making of Noble Woman (Assasin's Creed)
- Making of GOT Game Trailer by RealTime UK
Concepts
- Curl and Frizz
- Hair Pipeline Data
- Instancing Hair Strands
- Self Shadowing
- Understanding Dynamics
Frequently Asked Questions
- Upgrading to Ornatrix V4 from Earlier Versions
- Licensing
- Why did my Guides get all messed up?
- Checking Ornatrix version
Troubleshooting
- Installation Problems
- Errors on 3ds Max Start Up
- Program crashes when trying to authorize
- Modifier is not visible in 3dsmax modifier drop-down list
- Distorted guides when increasing the Num. Points parameter
- Hairs displays at 100% in viewport.
- Distorted guides after reloading the scene
- Some Ornatrix modifiers are not present in the modifier list
- CHM Help File is Blank
- Generate Groom button causes a MaxScript exception
- Controlling Logging
SDK
- Purpose
- MaxScript Access
  - MaxScript Hair Interface
  - MaxScript Guides Interface
- C++ SDK
Reference
- Definitions
- Marschner Shader
- OXH File Format