Hair Tool is add-on for Blender that will help you generate hair-card, shell hair or curve hair in non destructive way, using geometry nodes and python.

For Blender 3.6 – use Hair Tool 3.x (only new hair curves are supported) – and Hair Library 3.0_date

For ‘old’ Blender 3.3 up to 3.6 use ‘old’ Hair Tool. 2.46 (last version that supports ‘old’ curves) – use HairLib_18_12_2022 with it.

Links:

Online documentation – for latest Hair Tool 3.0 – it is is most up to date way of learning the addon

Online documentation – for older version Hair Tool 2.46

Discord server where you can get support and  report bugs

Hair Tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 by SinHouse – for ‘old’ HTool 2.46

YouTube channel with videos related to HTool

Business vs Individual license: if you are company with above 170k $ income you are Business. Otherwise you can buy individual license

Some of customers who purchased Hair Tool:

UNIGINE, Fatshark, Tactical Adventures, Ubisoft , Digital Extremes, Avalanche Studios, Keyword Studios , Rocksalt, Sharkmob, Black Forest Games, QLOC, VERMILA , Event Horizon , NOBODY STUDIO , Emberstorm and others.

There are multiple ways to generate hair-cards with Hair Tool:

Hair System – procedural hair generation based on geometry nodes – great for all kind of complicated hair styles (braids, curls, punk etc)

using Guide Mesh (grid surface) – best for modeling long hair strands – now rewritten to use new hair curves, in HT 3.0

using Track To Mesh – great for short to medium hairstyles

interactive grooming – old method that uses particle hair to generate hair-cards, replaced by Hair System

drawing and extending hair strands similar to Grease Pencil drawing – now rewritten to use new hair curves, in HT 3.0

using short hair modeling method – for short to medium length hair – animal fur, short human hairstyles

using shell hair modeling – great for very short hair (fur, carpet). Bit complicated to setup in game engine.

Some of the features:

tools for curve based hair modeling (cutting, extending, deforming etc) – rewritten to support new curves

automated UV workflow (you can define uv regions, which can then be automatically assigned to hair strand)

easy hair rigging and animation with Jiggle physics

hair library that contains various hairstyles and sub-components,

various adjustable ribbons profiles – Mesh Profile, Curls Profile, Circle, Flat, Braids etc.

convert: Curves to Particle Hair, Particle Hair to Curve ribbons, Curve ribbons to mesh ribbons and so on.

curve resampling and decimation (increases/decreases curve points count)

generating vertex color/weights gradients, transferring UVs and vertex weights from character to mesh haircards.

texture baking from new hair curves; supports: normal, ao, diffuse, tangent, ID, root, flow and more maps

build-in addon auto-updater

and more

Hair tutorials for Blender 3.0 series (these are quite old – I’m in the middle of moving all the tools from od curves to new hair Curves):

Introduction video

Working with materials and uv in Hair Tool 2.1

Example of making hair in Hair Tool 2.1

New Videos (for Blender 3.3 and above) showing new Hair System based on Geometry nodes:

hair setup in one minute

short hair creation using Shell Hair and Short Hair modeling techniques

create hair without grooming

Hair Tool can be used to export hair to Character Creator. 

Check out CCreator Smart Hair system

Hair Tool to Character Creator workflow video tutorial

Smart Hair Shader Part 1 – Basic Parameters & Base Color in CC

Smart Hair Shader Part 2 – Effects & Save Materials in CC 

Update 3.6.0 for Blender 3.6, 4.0, (date 14.1.2024),

• Multiple directories locations can be added HTool addon Preferences > Library),
• improved creation and matching of hair library presets to you

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Official Discord : https://discord.gg/M2kqB4M9tG

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