• Workflow
• Styling
  • Hair from Mesh Strips Object
  • Edit Guides Modifier
  • Symmetry Modifier
  • Frizz Modifier
  • Length Modifier
  • Hair Shells Modifier
  • Surface Comb Modifier
  • Guides on Spline Modifier
  • Ground Strands Modifier
• Rendering
  • Hair from Guides Modifier
• Export
  • Alembic Export
• Fixes

 

Workflow 

• When no sub-object hair points are selected deformers in the pipeline now affect the whole hair structure.
• New Ornatrix toolbar!
• Internal improvements to speed of hair and guides evaluation as it passes through the modifier pipeline. Significant speed-ups in some cases.

 

Styling 

 

Hair from Mesh Strips Object 

• New to Ornatrix V3!

 

Edit Guides Modifier 

• Named selection set
• Revert Brush
• Smooth Brush
• Move Guides on Mesh
• Soft Selection for brushing and styling guides (??)
• Ability to pass Soft Selection up the stack (??)

 

Symmetry Modifier 

• Better interpolation down the seam
• Option not to mirror strands which are too close to the mirror plane
• Ability to automatically ground mirrored strands
• New ability to align the mirror plane along X/Y/Z axes

 

Frizz Modifier 

• Frizzing is now multi-threaded for improved performance.
• Maximum frizz amount is increased for additional control.
• A new curve control is added to control frizzing along the length of a strand.

 

Length Modifier 

• Length value can now extend past original guide length to make them longer as well as shorter

 

Hair Shells Modifier 

• The modifier is now exposed to MaxScript to allow custom scripts to set it up and add/remove shells.

 

Surface Comb Modifier 

• Surface Comb Sink movement after creation
• Surface Comb Sink tip Adjustment
• Surface comb drag out distance and display GUI arrows are now independent of the viewport zoom

 

Guides on Spline Modifier 

• The length diagram can now be popped out into a floating window to allow fine control over the relative guide lengths.

 

Ground Strands Modifier 

• Numerous improvements to the consistency of how the hair is deformed after strands have been grounded

 

Rendering 

• Displacement of hairs on surface of mesh at render time (blur)
• Nitrous hair display and rendering
• Velocity output to Vray for correct motion vector Render Elements

 

Hair from Guides Modifier 

• Hair viewport preview count can now be linked to the final render count via a percentage multiplier

 

Export 

 

Alembic Export 

• UV coordinates are now exported into Alembic files

 

Fixes 

• Ground strands modifier not changing orientation of grounded strands, just their positions
• "Apply to group" parameter does not have effect in mesh from strands modifier thickness
• Selecting some hairs using a brush then undoing the change in edit guides modifier restores an incorrect selection
• Surface brush functionality (Ctrl+Brush) has been fixed in edit guides modifier
• Curve data is reset when object is cloned in guides on spline modifier
• Soft selection not working in edit guides modifier
• Sink weights do not have any effect in surface comb modifier
• Licensing checks are now done in background without disturbing user workflow
• Edit guides modifier crashes when "Push away from mesh" is pressed in sub-object mode
• Crash when editing guide shape with 2 guide vertices
• Fixed all guides generating at origin in guides from surface modifier when "Topology Orientation" option is off
• Moving propagation modifier down the modifier stack before hair from guides modifier crashes Max