Another substantial update for the barber plugin. Info: https://ephere.com/plugins/autodesk/maya/ornatrix/ Changelog: New: Added a graphic indication to Plant Guides Tool of where the guide is going to be placed New: Multiplier operator supports generating strand groups New: OxEditGuides command can be called from pymel directly without a string New: Added "-help" flag to OxEditGuides command New: Added an option to choose a curve point number in Plant Guides Tool windows property New: Shape attributes are restored to 1 when deactivating Mesh From Strands (aids in preserving Arnold render properties) Fixed: Maya crashes when deactivating HFG Fixed: VRayOxHairPrimitive crash with some configurations Fixed: Broken guides after reloading a scene with Nucleus Simulation Fixed: Unable to remove objects from the Force Fields list in Moov node Fixed: MtoA and Ornatrix 2.x crash Fixed: Maya crashes when loading Ox plugin on Linux Fixed: Match mouse cursor offset when control points in EG are moved Fixed: Planting a new guide with adopt shape option with EG crashes Maya when there are 0 guides Fixed: Edit Guides resetting shape when deselecting and re-selecting all strands using a Select brush Fixed: Ignore Backfacing option not working with Surface brushes Fixed: Select brush can work in surface mode Fixed: Ignore Backfacing Strands option not working in Edit Guides strand or control point selection Fixed: Maya Field/Solvers don't affect Moov Fixed: Selection is not preserved in EditGuides when loading V1 scenes Fixed: Incorrect shape sub-selection in EditGuidesShape Fixed: Proxy mesh distorted when its local coordinates go into negative Z values Fixed: Popping of animated strands with high point count and stacked Frizz modifiers Fixed: Duplicated strand IDs with multiple levels of propagation Fixed: Crash when changing hair settings while running Arnold IPR In my next life I'll put some hair on an actual head or animal. For this one, just hairy spheres...
Just updated to 2.1.7.16191 Info on the link posted above. Changelog: New: User Brush in Edit Guides: new brushes can now be created using custom Python scripts New: Added an option to Lengthener to scale whole strand New: Hair from Mesh Strips hairs can be oriented based on strip mesh UV coordinates Fixed: Undoing Distribution or Interpolation Type does not update the attribute editor UI Fixed: Render Point Count in Detail Node does not work with HairFromMeshStrips Fixed: Increasing input strand count into Edit Guides where strand(s) have been planted can produce incorrect hair Fixed: "Unexpected Internal Failure" and broken UI in Ornatrix V1 Fixed: A second Namespace is created when creating a groom Fixed: Maya Field/Solvers don't affect Moov Fixed: Propagated strands don't appear if Propagation is added on top of ChangeWidth Fixed: If Change Width is added on top of propagated strands only current group of strands is visible Fixed: Graphic artifact on VP2.0 in Maya 2016 Ext.2
