With the release of version 1.8, Ornatrix has evolved into Blur's full-fledged studio hair solution.  Stacking styling modifiers is fast and intuitive, allowing for a wide range of aesthetic variations to meet differing project demands.  Its integration into Vray now allows us to beautifully render 100s of thousands of hairs quickly and efficiently right inside our more comprehensive scene files, with full respect to Vray's GI lighting features, motion blur, and DOF.  Ornatrix also has the versatility to accept point caches to drive hair animation, which means that we can animate splines in any way we like, and apply that data at render time.  This update has brought a level of power and control that was previously unavailable to us.  The results have set a precedent for what hair can be inside 3D Studio Max.

-Danny Young, Blur Hair TD