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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, ...

Hair cards are one of the most common ways to bring hair into real-time engines and games, but building them by hand, strand by strand, is slow and hard to iterate on. In this tutorial, Marsel Khadiyev walks through how to build a full hair card setup in Ornatrix procedurally, starting from a raw scalp groom and ending with an exportable hair card atlas that combines both scalp hair and eyebrows. Why go procedural A manual hair card workflow usually means placing individual cards by hand and re-doing that work every time the hairstyle changes. The procedural approach in Ornatrix keeps every step as an operator in the stack, so nothing is locked in. Strand count, card width, texture assignment and color can all be revisited at any point without rebuilding the groom from scratch. Building the base groom The workflow starts from Ornatrix's New from Templates option, selecting the Human template to load a pre-fitted scalp. This template includes two separate parts, the scalp ...

How to Generate Hair Cards in Ornatrix for Cinema 4D If you work with digital hair in games, stylized characters , or real-time pipelines, hair cards are still one of the most practical solutions. In this tutorial, I show how to generate hair cards automatically in Ornatrix for Cinema 4D using the Mesh from Strands workflow . This approach helps convert dense strand-based hair into cleaner, more optimized geometry that can be used for game-ready assets , stylized characters, and real-time character production. Why this workflow matters Building hair cards by hand can take a lot of time, especially when you already have a detailed groom. With Ornatrix for Cinema 4D, you can speed up the process by turning strands into mesh-based hair cards directly inside your grooming workflow. This makes the technique especially useful for: game character hair stylized hairstyles real-time character production Unreal Engine pipelines optimization of complex hair grooms ...

  #Ornatrix #UnrealEngine #3dsMax Learn how to export Ornatrix hair from 3ds Max to Unreal Engine using the Groom system - and convert your Strands to Hair Cards fast and clean. This method keeps the exact shape of your groom, avoids crashes, and works with static hair for games and cinematics. ___ Links: ➡️ Original question on Ephere forum: ➡️ Tutorial by CharlyTutors(Andrew Krivulya) ➡️ Follow us on Instagram ➡️ Ask your question on Discord ➡️ Join the series on our channel ➡️ Explore Ornatrix ___ Timing: 0:00 - Showing the result we have in 3ds Max + Ornatrix. This is a quick example result. 0:06 - Export it to Ornatrix Alembic using these settings: Y-up, No Animation/Static Hair, Unreal Engine Export, Export Strand Rotation, Export Surface Position, and click Export. 0:26 - Then import the object into Unreal through the Groom Plugin. Don’t forget to enable it. Use these settings: Rotation X = -90, Z = 180, Scale X = -1. 0:31 - Drag the object into the scene...

  In this video I show you a revolutionary method (ornatrix branching) for editing haircards for games. Its essence lies in the fact that having different layers - we create one object that manages all layers and allows combing and editing at once - as if it were one whole object. Also, Branching allows you to replace any hair card with another - for a dedicated guide or group - at any time. For this task - I will be using 3ds Max and Ornatrix. It is which allows - to create several layers with different haircards and one base object with which we will manage them. Thanks to this, editing the hairstyle becomes more convenient than during the usual manual creation of haircards.   ---   PATREON:   If you want to get all the lessons with my voice acting as soon as possible, do not wait for the release of each episode for years, and also plunge into the friendly groomers community in Discord + receive feedback on work, answers to questions about grooming - then support m...