We are excited to announce the release of the new Ornatrix Maya V5! It is more advanced, yet also more friendly than ever.

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

New Features

• Workflow
  • Operator stack branching. Ability to easily create and navigate multiple shapes sharing the same groom node history.
• Merge Operator
  • Overlap resolution and blending. Make seamless transitions between two or more grooms on the same character.
• Mesh from Strands
  • Hair texture generation. Procedurally create and update textures generated directly from dense hair onto a hair mesh.
  • Group meshing. Mesh groups of hairs into flat or tubular mesh clumps.
• Warp Roots
  • Adjust root density locally on your character with a map or a channel.
• Edit Guides Operator
  • Texture paint brush. Draw textures and decals directly onto your hair.
• Clumping
  • Clump manipulators. Move, scale, and rotate your clumps at any place along their length.
  • New braiding tools. Create quick, procedural braids along any clump's length.
• Length Operator
  • Extend curved strands for a more natural appearance.
• Surface Comb Operator
  • Curved sinks. Direction helper curves drawn on top of your character's surface to direct the flow/shape of the hair.
• Speed optimizations
  • Sensitive parts of code use SIMD and latest Embree

Upgrading and Discounts

If you purchased Ornatrix Maya V4 within past 6 months you have already received a free upgrade to V5. 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 May 31, 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 V5 on your downloads page, please let us know.