How to Build a Custom Dreadlock Hair Card Groom in Ornatrix App
How to Build a Custom Dreadlock Hair Card Groom in Ornatrix App In the previous Ornatrix App tutorial we covered hair cards and how to pick from the built-in preset grooms in the hair card atlas . This time I wanted to go one level deeper and show how to build a completely new hair card groom from scratch, one you can reuse just like any of the built-in presets. The example I picked is a dread, since dreads come in enough variations that it is worth having a flexible, reusable base rather than a single fixed look. Why Dreads Need a Different Starting Point Ornatrix App ships with two hair card start scenes: a flat card, which represents a thin layer of hair on a plane, and a round card , built on a cylindrical base. Most dread references collect volume rather than sitting flat, so the round start scene is the better base for this groom. Shaping the Dread with Clump The first operator added to the stack is Clump . Dynamic clumping is enabled and set to a single clump per card, ...