Cyber Radiance has released a major upgrade to its hair creation plugin for 3DS Max, which brings a new rendering engine that allows for better integration with 3rd-party renderers, support for V-Ray hair primitives, hair ambient occlusion, unlimited Hair Farm rendernode licenses, etc. Read on for the list of new features.
New features highlights include:
- A new rendering engine that provides additional speed and capabilities
- Fast ambient occlusion for hair
- Support for V-Ray hair primitives
- GI integration with FinalRender
- Maxwell Render support
- Skewed camera support for stereo rendering
- Different hair generation modes for uniformly distributing hair strands
- Improved hair-object collisions for HairMesh Sim and HairStyle PushOut
- New HairTo PolyStrips modifier for generating hair models for games
- New HairStyle Uncomb modifier for improving realism of hairstyles
- Various improvements to the existing Hair Farm tools and more
- Unlimited Hair Farm Rendernode Licenses – Hair Farm 2 Rendernode comes with a new licensing system. There is no need for activation, floating license server, or license transfer. Simply download Hair Farm 2 Rendernode and install it on as many computers as you need at no extra charge. Current Hair Farm Rendernode users can now upgrade to Hair Farm 2 Rendernode (unlimited) for free.
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New Hair Generation Modes Hair Farm 2 has multiple hair generation modes. You can now distribute hair strands randomly or with uniform variation over a surface. You can also use the topology of the surface (such as its faces and vertices) for placing hair strands. This provides an extra level of control for both hair generation and for scattering objects using HairTo Instances. |
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Hair Modeling Highlights Hair Farm 2 has various improvements to existing Hair Farm tools for modeling and styling hair. One of these new features is the Extrude Along Neighbors tool of HairMesh Edit that is designed to help reduce the time for modeling hair meshes. Furthermore, we have a new HairTo PolyStrips |
A trial version is available for download. More on Hair Farm’s website.
