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Changelog

V4.5 2023-11-04

New

  1. Support Blender 4.0 .
  2. Add "Hide Hair" after converting hair to cards.
  3. You can now select the converted hair card curves and modify the options.
  4. 3D Hair Brush now works on hair with more than 50 control points.

Optimizations

  1. Children Hair Modifiers are always enabled, and the option is removed from the preferences panel.
  2. Improve compatibility on Linux.
  3. Remove the maximum limit of hair card width.

Fixes

  1. Fix the issue that keyframes cannot be set for modifier options when rendering.
  2. Fix the error of add-ons when launching Blender.
  3. Fix the inconsistent result of clumps when deformation animations are rendered starting from different frames.
  4. Fix the error of adding children modifiers to hair cards.
  5. Fix the incorrect result of Attract Brush when attracting hairs with different numbers of endpoints.
  6. Fix the crash in Blender 3.5 and above caused by expression of hair modifiers.
  7. Fix the crash on macOS and Linux caused by copying texture fields between new hair systems.

V4.4.2 2023-09-14

New

  1. Add a new function to clear all ID properties on data blocks added by the add-on with one click. Note that it will reset all effects and options of the add-on.

Fixes

  1. Fix the issue that the keyframes cannot be set for the modifier parameters when rendering.
  2. Fix an error of the add-on which occurs when Blender is loading.

V4.4.1 2023-06-26

New

  1. Support Blender 3.6
  2. Convert Hair to Cards supports the new hair system.
  3. Draw brush supports mirror.
  4. Automatically close pop-up panel after selecting a hair preset.
  5. Add an option to control the influence of the brush on the normal

Optimizations

  1. Optimize the quality of the normal maps of hair cards when using Eevee engine.
  2. Improve the efficiency of Convert hair to cards

Fixes

  1. Fix the twisting direction of Twist brush when mirror is enabled.
  2. Fix the crash of CyclesHair renderer in Blender 3.5.1

V4.3 2023-04-29

New

  1. 3D brushes support new hair system.
  2. Add pagination in the presets selection window.
  3. Add a new function to modify hair length in batches.
  4. Add new option Tilt to Texture Region.
  5. Add a new function to copy hair modifiers across different objects.
  6. Add a new function to control the diameter scale of vertex groups.
  7. macOS: Support Metal backend.

Optimizations

  1. Set the default Value of the texture rendering environment to 0.5, and set the default interpolation between color stops in ColorRamp node of depth maps to B-Spline.
  2. Reduce size.

Fixes

  1. Fix the issue that expressions and weight layers are not copied when copying hair modifiers.

V4.2 2023-02-28

New

  1. Add an option "Convert Hair to Cards"
  2. Add attract control points to Attract brush

Fixes

  1. Fix the crash of clump modifier caused by adding hair when the parent clump is displaying children in particle edit mode

Compatibility

The current version does not support the "Metal" GPU backend for Blender 3.5 on macOS. If this feature is enabled, you may receive the following errors:

  1. In particle edit mode, there is an error when using the brush.
  2. The brush pie menu cannot be displayed properly, and the following error occurs.
  3. The "Show Hair Color" option in particle edit mode is not working, and the hair color cannot be displayed in edit mode.
  4. "Viewport Shading" of the Cycles Hair renderer does not work, and the results of "Use Diameter Random" and "Use Radius curve" cannot be displayed properly.

To use the above functions properly, please switch the Blender GPU backend to "OpenGL" on macOS. Once switched, all functions will work properly.

The above issues only occur on macOS but not in Windows, which may cause inconvenience for Mac users. We will fix these issues as soon as possible.

V4.1 2022-11-30

New

  1. Support Blender 3.4.
  2. Add Density Brush.
  3. Add Smooth Curvature mode to the Smooth Brush, which works similarly to the new built-in Smooth Brush of Blender.
  4. Add weight layers.
  5. Add hair weight control to hair modifiers.

Fixes

  1. Fix the issue that CyclesHair crashes when rendering with GPU and both Optix and CPU enabled in Blender 3.3.
  2. Fix the issue that the hair is displayed incorrectly when combed in mirror mode with texture space activated in Blender 3.1 and above.
  3. Fix the issue that curl effect of clump modifiers changes when the object changes its shape. Note: This is incompatible with the previous versions of the add-on.
  4. Fix the issue that the hair is shortened in a clump when the length of hair varies in a large range. Note: This is incompatible with the previous versions of the add-on.

Optimizations

  1. Improve the performance of Add Brush and Density Brush when no color is drawn.

V4.0 2022-11-08

New

  1. Add Draw brush
  2. Add the function of hair presets.
  3. Add N-panel in 3D view, integrated with multiple options
  4. View the real-time effect when adjusting modifiers.
  5. Provide Rotation Step for Clone brush.

Fixes

  1. Fix the issue that the short hairs are clumped together when combed with Part brush.
  2. Fix the error that effect would be messy when the Attract brush attracts hairs with different segments.
  3. Fix the unsmooth transition in hair roots when Intensity Curve is enabled in Curve of Clump Modifier.
  4. Fix the issue that the random areas are distributed in clumps when the threshold of Random Thickness is set to a negative value.
  5. Fix the error that the final effect is incorrect when render region is used.

Optimizations

  1. Modify the style of Pie Menu for better observation.
  2. Remove Curve brush, and remove "clone coordinate system" in Clone brush.

V3.3 2022-09-19

Update

  1. Add a new function for hiding guide lines in the Particle Edit mode.

  2. Expression is supported in the Modifiers

  3. Add an option Preserve_Volume to Clump Modifier

  4. Add the function of to Interpolated

  5. Fix some errors due to incompatible Blender 3.2.1.

  6. Add Snack brush.

  7. Add one more subdivision algorithm in Clump Modifier.

V3.2 2022-06-30

Update

  1. Support Blender 3.2

  2. Fix the issue that the keyboard shortcuts are displayed as numbers in Blender 3.0 or above.

  3. Fix the installation issue in Blender 2.93 or below.

  4. Fix the installation issue caused by missing "xrandr" on Linux platform.

3D Brush

  1. Add Snack Hook Brush.

  2. Supports undo in Color Painting.

  3. Color brush supports X-mirror.

  4. Supports undo deleting color groups.

  5. Update Assign Color to a pop-up menu, to fix the failure of re-assigning color.

  6. Fix the sudden change of brush radius from 3D mode to 2D mode when Brush Scale is enabled.

  7. Fix the crash when adding Interpolated hair on Linux platform.

  8. Fix the inconsistent positions of 3D brush with objects due to too close distance in orthogonal view.

  9. Fix the issue that the brushes don't work when being too close to objects.

  10. Fix the failure of switching brushes using the builtin brush shortcut.

  11. Fix the issue that brush Part and Orient cannot work properly in 2D mode.

  12. Fix the issue that Endpoint of Noise brush doesn't work properly.

CyclesHair Renderer

  1. Support multiple materials rendering.

  2. Add Hide/Show Viewport Overlays on the right side of 3D view top titlebar to fix the display issue of CyclesHair material preview mode when closing overlays.

  3. Fix the issue when COMPAT_ENGINES in Repair panel is set to "list".

  4. Fix the display issue for some older graphic cards or drivers.

  5. Hair Sub-modifiers

  6. Density of clump type Generated in clump modifier supports applying vertex groups.

  7. Add revert option to texture mask.

  8. Grid generating algorithm of clump type Generated in clump modifier supports multithreading to speed up calculation.

  9. Add possion disk sampling algorithm to clump type Generated in clump modifier which is slightly faster than grid algorithm.

  10. Support displaying clump point quantity in real time. (In red when greater than or equal to the number of total hairs.)

  11. Add Rename Vertex Group and Remove Vertex Group in the panel Vertex Groups, through which, the changes will be applied synchronously.

  12. Add Endpoint and Endpoint Shape in Noise modifier.

  13. Fix the issue that modifiers attribute animation can't be exported when exporting ABC files.

  14. Fix the display issue after adding modifiers in rare cases.

Hair tool

  1. Add the function of converting curve to hair.

V3.1 2022-04-04

  1. Support Children display in particle edit mode.

  2. Fix the issue that reports 'Failed to get the depth of the object'.

  3. Fix the incorrect behavior of Show Emitter.

  4. Add the option Threshold to each modifier.

  5. Add curl and twist in the Clump modifier.

  6. Add an option Orient to Wave.

  7. CyclesHair supports simple material display.

  8. Add Random for some parameters.

  9. Add the function to control influence ranges using vertex groups and textures.

  10. Add 2 clump types: Parent and Generated.

  11. Add 'Use Diameter Random'.