New: Ability to pan/zoom in a graph/curve editors
New: All graph/curve editors now support undo/redo
New: Mesh from strand billboard UVs now respects strand thickness
New: Rotation attribute data for hair
New: New Grooms feature (XML format for defining hair presets)
New: Added support for NURBS curves to Ox Guides from Shape modifier
New: Added option to ground strands modifier to control which strand components are affected
New: Deforming collision meshes are now supported in PhysX dynamics
New: Nearly all maps used in Ornatrix now have an invert option
New: Switched to new MSI based installers for easier distribution and deployment of Ornatrix
New: SDK and Maxscript access to Ornatrix version information
New: Multiple hairs per follicle using new Strand Multiplier modifier
New: Hair from Mesh Strips now allows "fanning" hairs perpendicular to strip surface
New: Show named selection sets for sub-object in Edit Guides
New: Installer now offers options to install for 3dsmax Design
New: Add support for varying hair strip parameters
New: All points in curve editors can be moved and deleted
New: Ability to specify install locations for specific components using new installer
New: Z-up, Y-up, or X-up orientation export for Alembic
New: Added an option for Alembic exporter to export render version of hairs
New: Added an option to export Alembic objects each to their own file
New: Allow user to specify the maximum number of hairs in viewport preview which face cameras
New: Converted all "Invert" map checkboxes into image buttons
New: Surface brushing performance and functionality is improved
New: GUI improvements with real-time feedback of brush strength and size in modify panel
New: Pull brush for straightening out hairs
New: Ability to lock surface brush through modify panel, without having to press Ctrl key
New: Added a label in EditGuidesModifier to show current guide selection
New: Improved performance of GroundStrandsModifier grounding
New: Icons for multiple Ornatrix operators
New: 3dsmax 2016 support
New: Quick hair button now adds VRayOrnatrixMod if renderer is V-Ray RT
New: Add ability for .oxgroom files to store and display a thumbnail

Fix: Flickering in root moving and grooming and bad root interpolation
Fix: Edit Spline not working with Adopt from Stack
Fix: Frizz not working as expected
Fix: Crash when creating then deleting Edit Guides root data
Fix: Proxy meshes are being deformed incorrectly
Fix: Frizz modifier amount map is not working as expected
Fix: Issues with gravity modifier. Lost curve after saving and loading scene
Fix: Index out of range after changing root count and using Edit Guides modifier
Fix: HairFromMeshStripsObject is not updated in the scene view with animated parameters
Fix: Strand propogation modifier freeze
Fix: Guides on spline crash
Fix: Edit gudies crash
Fix: Strip selection in Hair from mesh strips object is not updated correctly in Wireframe scene view
Fix: Symmetry modifier plane vector is not draw correctly in some positions
Fix: Length modifier randomize seed is not working
Fix: Failed asserting at Matrix::LookAt
Fix: Edit Guides loading error (binary I/O) and crash
Fix: Customer-reported issue with the new Strand Multiplier modifier
Fix: Hair clustering modifier produces different clusters in viewport on each run
Fix: Frizz diagram crash
Fix: "Hair from mesh strips" and "strand multiplier" GUI is gone
Fix: Edit Guides plant root crash reported by customer
Fix: Ornatrix Script Error on CAT bones
Fix: Crash rendering Mesh from Strands with V-Ray without UV coordinates
Fix: Ornatrix toolbar doesn't get installed
Fix: Alembic export crashes when trying to export multiple objects
Fix: Ornatrix HairLength map modifier broken
Fix: Error in GuideDelta when deleting roots in user-provided scene
Fix: Last point of hair clustering diagram is not editable
Fix: Issues with Edit Guides corruption on scene save
Fix: After recent merge Hair from Mesh Strips diagram broken again
Fix: VRay distance texture does not work with distribution maps
Fix: Detail modifier not smoothing interpolated strands
Fix: Dynamics diagram editor works very unreliable
Fix: Toolbar is not installed for non-English versions of Max
Fix: Crash when changing strand point count before ground strands modifier
Fix: Crash when ground strands distribution object is deleted and scene reloaded
Fix: Saving and re-loading Wikihuman "digital Emily" model does not preserve guides shape
Fix: Hair clustering modifier is not applied when rendering
Fix: If scene has two objects with same name Alembic export crashes
Fix: Install (copy) groom templates into /plugcfg/Ornatrix/Grooms
Fix: Ornatrix dynamics exception and inability to simulate
Fix: Crash with caching of hair from guides modifier used as guides for another hair from guides modifier
Fix: Installer doesn't install grooms into correct directory on some versions of 3dsmax
Fix: Alembic exporter does not export animation for guides with ground strands modifier
Fix: Icons in create groom dialog are not well aligned
Fix: Generate groom dialog GUI cleanup
Fix: Generate groom dialog switch to Qt
Fix: Implement groom dialog filters
Fix: Crash when undo after editing frizz diagram
Fix: Diagram modification undo is not work for Dynamic modifier
Fix: PropagationModifier diagrams do not render correctly
Fix: Curve diagram in hair from strips, strands multiplier not redrawing when panned
Fix: Installer throws an exception when trying to execute the AddToolbar action
Fix: Failed assert/crash probably from GroundStrandsModifier
Fix: Assertion failed if GroundStrandsModifier applied for mesh with degenerate triangle
Fix: Calling Logger::Instance.Log from different threads causes deadlock in Ornatrix for Max
Fix: Alembic hair export hair width incorrect when loaded with V-Ray proxy object
Fix: Groom dialog item names should use more friendly format
Fix: Generate toolbar icons from SVG files
Fix: Guide clustering modifier maps don't work
Fix: Replace ANN library with a more modern alternative
Fix: Installer only installs toolbar for first version it encounters
Fix: Mesh from strands produces noisy tips for flat proxy meshes
Fix: Add hair menu option in non-QT Max (2013 and below) does nothing
Fix: Installer problem when batch installing on network drives
Fix: Unwanted guides/hairs get planted when sub-selection option is on
Fix: Comb brush works incorrectly in orthographic views
Fix: Crash when opening our bat sample scene
Fix: Hair is always displayed black in Nitrous viewport
Fix: "View polygon hair" global setting does not survive 3dsmax restart
Fix: "Remember" button in Guides from Mesh Object does nothing
Fix: Rotate strands modifier doesn't use map and channel multipliers if orient based on strand is on
Fix: Rotate strands map doesn't produce real-time feedback when using color picker in medit
Fix: Push away from surface option in edit guides produces incorrect results
Fix: Viewport and render normals are facing the wrong way
Fix: Adding surface comb sink to a face and reducing mesh face count causes a crash
Fix: Crash adding Detail modifier on top of HairFromMeshStrips object
Fix: Crash when changing strand clustering twist value to a small value
Fix: Default feathers groom is not working
Fix: About box should indicate demonstration version somewhere

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)