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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 Create Volumetric Hair Meshes in Ornatrix for Cinema 4D If you are working on real-time apps, creating stylized characters, or preparing models for 3D printing , you know the pain of manual hair retopology . Converting dynamic grooms into clean, closed geometry can take hours of tedious work. What if you could fully automate this workflow? With Ornatrix for Cinema 4D , generating grouped hair meshes is a 100% procedural, non-destructive process. Let's break down how to instantly convert your hair guides into volumetric geometry. The Procedural Grooming Workflow In this tutorial, we will cover how to easily generate a grouped hair mesh using pre-clumped hair. Instead of modeling by hand, we let the modifier stack do the heavy lifting. Step-by-Step: From Strands to Volumetric Mesh 1. Procedural Clump Meshing Open a scene containing some pre-clumped hair. Select the Clump operator and, in the Object Tab under the Sub-Clump section, turn on the "...

  #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...

Official answers from Epic Games (Unreal Community) to various questions about Alembic hair in Unreal Engine 4.25-26. In this video, I answer questions such as: - solve the problem with DOF / Motion Blur artifacts while rendering hair? - transfer color from Xgen / Ornatrix to Unreal Engine 4? - avoid problems with wool simulation during Bind to skeleton mesh? - export hair from Xgen in three ways using different scripts? - solve the problem with Backface Culling during Scale X = -1? - set up a shader and add texture render? - to flip the texture? - improve shadow rendering and hair/fur quality? More tutorials: - Unreal Engine 4 → https://bit.ly/2ExhTEx - Alembic Hair → https://bit.ly/3jIEUnQ Video content: 0:00 - Lesson topic. 0:29 - Acknowledgments 2:02 - Alembic Hair Groom Asset + DoF = artifacts around edges. Official response from the developers. 4:07 - Color transfer from Xgen / Ornatrix 5:39 - Answer from developers about RootUV and Per Strands /...

In this part we will talk about how to bake: - ROOT and ID maps in V-Ray Render - AO and DIRECT maps in Arnold Render - Normal Map in Knald And also about how to avoid bugs when baking in the new Maya 2019.2      More tutorials: - Ornatrix  →  http://bit.ly/2klPh7r  - V-Ray → http://bit.ly/2kB9ari - Maya → http://bit.ly/2NVabpZ      Video Content: 0:01 - Information about the other voice translations 0:06 - Welcome and lesson topic 0:33 - Fixing a roasting bug in Maya 2019.2 1:29 - ROOT and ID maps in V-Ray Render. 5:42 - AO and DIRECT maps in Arnold Render 10:35 - Preparing the model for baking in Knald. 12:18 - Baking Normal Map in Knald. 13:55 - What will we talk about in the following parts? 14:12 - Forrender Renderfarm 14:21 - Info-Partners 14:24 - The ending and previews of other lessons.            Stay tuned for updates: ★Vkontakte - https://vk.com/artofcharly ★Instagra...