Version 3 of your favorite grooming plugin for Maya is here after two years of active development and beta testing. This update expands greatly on Ornatrix Maya V2 in nearly all aspects: GUI, performance, hair display, optimization, and of course features.
It's easy to upgrade your existing license, and for the first time we've also added rental options.
New features
Edit Guides
Change Tracking
All brushes are now Maya native tools
Create Brush
Delete Brush
Draw strands as Maya tool
Draw strands can extend and modify existing strands
Edit Guides amount value applies to strand deletions and creations
Way to turn off applied components in Edit Guides Shape
Surface Comb
Triangulation mode
Sink editing as Maya tool
Surface Comb sinks can be created on a new distribution surface or existing hair, like the case with brushes
Hair from Guides
Strand groups can be used as hair parts
Guide proximity mode in Hair from Guides on by default, barycentric interpolation on by default
Arnold Render
Strand channel export
Created hair is assigned aiStandardHair shader when Arnold is used
AI Animator : Train hair movement based on predefined animation using machine learning
Noise operator : Quickly animate basic procedural hair movement, or just add randomness to hair shape
Smooth Surface operator : Use OpenSubDiv to dynamically subdivide base mesh
Reduced storage requirements for hair surface dependencies, allows faster work with polygonal base meshes and smaller memory usage
Strand group patterns : Use a pattern to filter operators for a range of strand groups when needed, instead of a single strand group
Strand group blending : Blend between strand groups in various operators
Multiple hair strand groups: a single strand can now belong to multiple strand groups, allowing a greater control over various effects.
USD (Universal Scene Description) hair curve export
Viewport Display
Significant speed increases in viewport hair rendering
Hair overlay colors show strand groups, channel values, and selection directly on hair with custom saturation
Upgrading
If you purchased Ornatrix Maya V2 within past 6 months (or after March 1, 2020) you get a free upgrade to this new version! Please log in to make sure your automatic upgrade was completed successfully.
All existing Ornatrix license owners get a 50% upgrade discount if purchased before November 15, 2020. After this date the upgrade discount will drop to 25% perpetually. The upgrade discount is automatically applied to perpetual licenses once you log into your account. Upgrade discount doesn't apply to rented licenses.
Rental Licenses
As of V3 you may now rent licenses on monthly, biannual, or annual basis. See the purchase page for more information and pricing.
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