The simple answer is NO.

To back this up there isn't a single example tutorial of someone making a hairstyle from start to finish using Ornatrix.

 You could possible create a straight long hairstyle if the dynamics didn't crash constantly.

You could create a short spike hairstyle but if you want to create anything else, best head over to Hairfarm. It doesn't have the physics but the physic here is so flaky it isn't worth your time.

I have spent a lot of time trying to get a satisfactory result but constantly run into technical issues and I'm frankly tired of do the work that should have been done in the first place before asking for artist hard earnt cash.

If you work at blur you have some of the best technical support and script writers to fill on the hole in this plugin.

Individual artist don't have that support and you don't get adequate support here to make your investment worthwhile.

Oh BTW do take a look at this in-depth tutorial by very talented Andrew Hakim Lee. He produce the amazing Stan Lee render with Vray and Ornatrix and did a very long tutorial (I think the OX parts are almost 3 hours) on styling, rendering etc. There are no dynamics in that tutorial but ramous was asking about a start to finish hair tutorial and this is a great one.

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?id=1671#.U1vEL_ldXzg

Thanks!

Michael McCarthy

Hello Ramous,

Yes this is one real world production example like you requested. It may be a simple style but its 3 hours of good information on styling. Of course there will not be a tutorial on all styles of hair that can be made :) We also have a few others that go over basics of hair styling and Ornatrix parameters in our Youtube channle. We do intend to create more tutorials on styling and other topics as you suggested. As a matter of fact we continually release new video training on Ornatrix. A few weeks ago it was one on creating Alembic cache. With that said we do want to and intend to make even more styling videos so I hope that will help you out.

On the examples are you speaking of the scene file for the images I uploaded to help you with your hairstyle in the other thread? I did not save the file. If it would make you happy I can open the file again make the adjustments I explained and upload the scene to help you with your style.

Thanks

Michael

This is where I had got with what I could figure out before I gave it up as a lost cause. Example attached.

The main reason is once you get the hair close to what you want there is no way to edit or  brush the final bits into position without destroying what is already achieved.

The only thing i can see in what you did was to used more guides than I did and still the hair in places is tweening incorrectly.

I have watch the video, the guy is a great artist but not much of a communicator. Still it's the only thing out there .

Unfortunately for me a hairstyle like that isn't what I'm on about. You can easily brush this hairstyle without to much hassle.  

Another case is when you have brushed a longer hairstyle and mass FX is a non starter, you try the cloth approach but all the cloth strips are now intersecting?

You now can't have self collision but still simulation times are huge only to find there are some setting issues but to resolve them will take an eternity. 

Once again here is where you need a real world example of how an expert would approach this problem.

Your example have little to offer one trying to resolve this problem.

Then you will try another style and run into a hole set of new problems with only trial and error to find your way.

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Attached Files:

Hair+setup+37.rar (2140338 bytes),

The issue with the animation modifier will be fixed in the next Ox V3 beta build.

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)