We are excited to announce the release of the new Ornatrix 3dsmax V9! It is more advanced, yet also more friendly than ever.

Advanced workflows like painting textures onto hair, braiding, direct clump manipulation, smoothly merging grooms, procedurally generating hair texture onto mesh approximation of the hair, and many more are now standard. Ornatrix is now also faster and prettier than ever with even more sensitive code migration to SIMD libraries and viewport display improvements.

New Features

• Edit Guides
  • Brush textures allow painting textures directly on hair
  • Moved Edit Guides mode selection to its own rollout for better organization
  • Reordered Edit Guides rollouts for brushes in a more user-friendly configuration
  • New Edit Guides button icons for improved UI
  • Improved "current channel" combo box with tooltips, colors, and less verbosity
  • Channel selector replaced with better drop-down and "paint channel" button
  • Color box moved from paint brush to channel drop-down alongside channel value
  • Using color value when modifying color channels and spinner for greyscale ones
  • Show Channels map in Edit Guides object mode
  • Removed Edit Guides channel value spinner - color box now used for all channel types
  • Delete channel option removes compound channels
  • Clump index channel name can now be specified
  • Added curved extensions option to grow/shrink brush
  • Major speed optimization when editing control points
• Clump Modifier
  • Interactive braiding
  • Clump manipulators
  • Using colors to differentiate clumps and clump hair selections
  • Generated clump centers calculated more correctly at the center of each clump
  • Added UI slider to control clump editing position
  • Improved clump selection by including strand widths into hit testing
• Generate Guide Data Modifier
  • Visualize output channel and group data
• Mesh from Strands Modifier
  • Procedural texture generation
  • New "Cap faces" attribute for generating closed strand meshes
  • Added ability to close the tubes generated by mesh from strands
  • Strand group meshing
• Merge Modifier
  • Merge blending and overlap resolution
• Surface Comb Modifier
  • Curved sinks
  • Transform gizmo now properly orients itself based on middle sink's surface transformation
  • Transform appears at the center point of a selected sink instead of averaged point
  • Sinks can now be rotated and scaled (previously only move worked)
• Alembic Export
  • Alembic export dialog now uses Qt (replacing old Win32 version)
  • Strand rotations Alembic import/export support
  • Export "groom_color" attribute to UE Alembic
• Length Modifier
  • Curved Extensions option
• Frizz Modifier
  • Scale Randomness option
• Warp Roots Modifier
  • Procedurally adjustable root density
• Adopt External Guides Modifier
  • Assign guide dependencies to hair based on external guides (useful for UE export)
• Ground Strands modifier
  • Character mesh (separate from Distribution mesh) can now be assigned
• Hair from Guides modifier
  • Combined root count related parameters into one map
• Grooms
  • New Feather, Hair Ball grooms
  • Updated and improved Mesh Plumage groom with properly named nodes and directed strands
  • Improved groom icons for better visual recognition
• Performance and Display
  • GPU hair display - offloading viewport geometry calculation to the GPU for faster performance
  • Volumetric viewport hair shadows enabled by default with adjustable parameters
• UI Improvements
  • About dialog converted to Qt
  • All global settings now in a separate Qt Settings dialog
  • Settings Reset to defaults button added
  • Icons for all Modify panel UI buttons

Upgrading and Discounts

If you purchased Ornatrix 3dsmax V8 within past 6 months you have already received a free upgrade to V9. If that is not the case please reply to this email or contact us through our website.

For everyone else there is a 50% early-bird discount for perpetual licenses before October 1, 2025. The discount becomes 25% afterwards, We also provide monthly and yearly rental options.

Rental licenses automatically get a free upgrade. If you don't see V9 on your downloads page, please let us know.