We are excited to announce the release of our new Ornatrix Cinema 4D V3 plugin! This new version comes with several exciting changes and improvements that we believe will significantly enhance your experience with Ornatrix.
Features
Grooms Box and unbox Boxing of whole or partial stack Unboxing a groom modifier to extract its constituent operators Switched grooms from XML-based .oxgroom format to YAML-based format, better encompassing operators and their data Groom modifier, containing multiple internal operators with ability to expose custom parameters Graft grooms (easy point and click creation of complete grooms on any character model) Importing new grooms can be done as: full-stack (recreate whole modifier stack), as a Groom modifier (encompassing procedural groom internally), or as a Baked Hair object (containing groom output result) Mohawk Hair, Short Afro, Short Pixie graft grooms included General Automatic change tracking of select operators (curling modifier, frizz modifier, groom modifier, strand multiplier modifier, normalize modifier) Switched vertex tangents to use Texture Coordinate generation method by default Operator baking now supports baking strand widths Using geodesic distance by default to calculate strand group blending effect GUI Replaced majority of Win32 operator GUI with Qt (quicker, scalable, fixes issues with ramp displayed separately) Added "Collapse All" and "Collapse To" options to main Ornatrix menu, allowing to collapse modifier stack while maintaining render version of the hair Performance improvements Switched to Embree 3, significantly improving performance in many places Now using Embree in more places like Ground Strands modifier Improved hair display performance Using SIMD optimizations to further improve performance Alembic Export Added MXS flag for exporting to UE for its groom import process. Surface Comb modifier New per-sink parameter support: Rotation adjustments Flow Slope ramp Channel export Added an option to export sink groups to channel data Added an option to set sink data values based on an absolute length Option to display sink lengths inside viewport Normalize modifier "By group" option separating its application by strand groups Added a ramp curve Curling modifier Magnitude and Phase randomness for Curl Add range values for Noise Scale parameter Filter modifier Added Channel and Map parameters to control random fraction to Filter operator Edit Guides modifier Allow to move only the roots of strands Allow the Create brush to add strands per-vertex and per-polygon face Interpolate planted guide between all selected strands instead of only the closest one Exposed Rotate Strands Edit Guides mode to MaxScript Hair from Guides Added "Hidden Guide Behavior" option for Hair from Guides (don't generate hair for hidden guides) Baked hair Operator baking now supports baking strand widths Implemented full-stack import with Baked Hair object Added option to only load specific Alembic curves Guides from Guide Mesh modifier Preserves strand rotations Alembic Importer "Export Surface Positions" option for Alembic, allowing to export propagated strands like feathers Mesh from Strands modifier Mesh from Strands Conform to Surface option smoothly blends the roots to surface Guides from Shape modifier Added vertex color channels Clump modifier Dynamic clumping, allowing animated clump count and changes to clump count on the fly Added option to set strand groups based on clump ownership "Ground Displaced Roots" option Ground Strands modifier Mesh evaluation at specified time when grounding Strand Animation modifier Added option to only load specific Alembic curves V-Ray support V-Ray Standalone plugin uses new serialization, provides a much more complete implementation V-Ray standalone plugin is available for Linux V-Ray Standalone plugin updated to V-Ray 6.10
Fixes
Fixed: Graft grooms are displayed when using groom dialog
Fixed: GroundStrands: Strands are deformed when grounded
Fixed: Crash when creating sinks in a scene which contains loaded mirrored sinks
Fixed: When modifying roots in Edit Guides they can be dragged off the mesh
Fixed: Imported Full-Stack groom isn't parented under base node
Fixed: [Surface Comb] Issue with Sinks Length Value changes and display
Fixed: Missing Hair Presets when an object is selected
Fixed: Edit Guides: Brush mirroring not working
Fixed: [PushAway] Crash on a dense mesh
Fixed: Strand Scatter: Scattered objects should inherit the rotations of the target strands
Fixed: Crash when using a dense mesh in Push Away from Surface
Fixed: Reloading a graft groom doesn't restore graph parameters
Fixed: Symmetry not working on groom grafts
Fixed: Ramp Curve: Unable to change CV interpolation
Fixed: Push Away from Surface: Crash when using very dense meshes
Fixed: Curl: Random Seed not working correctly
Fixed: EditGuides: Soft Selection Distance parameter value is too sensitive.
Fixed: Scatter Strands: Crash when enabling 'Display in Viewport'
Fixed: PushAwayFromSurface: Incorrect collisions in Hair from Mesh Strips
Fixed: Delete brush selects wrong strands when ignore backfacing option is off
Fixed: GuidesFromShape: 'Use Face Include' not working
Fixed: No visual update when grafting a surface until mouse is released
Fixed: Crash when playing some animations
Fixed: Crash when moving modifiers
Fixed: Crash when a channel is assigned in various operators
Fixed: Surface Comb triangulation non-smooth transition between polygons
Fixed: Surface Comb Triangulation sinks don't factor in sink length
Fixed: Incorrect sink length is returned for mirrored sinks
Fixed: Clump twist is still applied even for non-clumped strands
Fixed: Cannot select strands in Edit Guides when strand groups were previously assigned to ungrounded hair
Fixed: BrushShape: Square shape does not work with the Delete brush
Fixed: Incorrect Blend Distance in operators when switching value below/above zero
Fixed: Hair strands disappear when switching Created stand type to Guides in Edit Guides
Fixed: Assertion/crash when opening a scene containing hair with vertices which don't belong to a strand
Fixed: Cannot add Ground Strands Modifier to baked hair
Fixed: Crash on startup
Fixed: Planting roots in Edit Guides doesn't work in Max 2016
Fixed: Guide Width display support with correct colors
Fixed: Edit Guides Z-Focus doesn't work
Fixed: Incorrect strand direction in Surface Comb with Mesh Vertex algorithm and coinciding strand/sink position
Fixed: Evaluating an Edit Guides node on top of a mesh multiple time produces incorrect output
Fixed: Baking Guides From Mesh into Edit Guides produces no output
Fixed: Error when evaluating Edit Guides above a mesh
Fixed: Add range values for Noise Scale parameter
Fixed: Add dependency on Python
Fixed: Detail does not filter Stand Groups
Upgrading and Discounts
If you purchased Ornatrix C4D V2 within past 6 months or if you are renting license(s) you already received a free upgrade to V3. 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 November 03, 2024. After that date the upgrade discount will be at 25%, so don't miss out! We also provide monthly and yearly rental options.
Rental licenses automatically get a free upgrade. If you don't see V3 on your downloads page, please let us know.
