Ornatrix for Maya 2.0 released

Ephere has released Ornatrix 2.0 for Maya, their plugin dedicated to hair, fur and feather creation. New features include:

• Moov Hair physics to provide a new way to simulate any type of hair, complex or simple.
• Harmonic Oscillator operator to provide a quick and easy real-time way of simulating basic fur and hair dynamics.
• Normalize operator to fix intersecting hairs.
• Clumping operator with features like per-clump management and clump patterns.
• Braids Shape to allow creating procedural braid patterns on your characters with ease.
• Push Away From Surface operator for accurate surface penetration fixing.
• Resolve Collisions operator to robustly keep hair away from an object, with animation controls.
• Change Width operator with a better way of controlling hair width.
• Importing Alembic hair from external assets with all information intact.
• Adopt External Guides operator to use a separate guides object for controlling pre-modelled hair.
• Weaver and Weaver Pattern for generating woven hairs such as in rattan furniture, wire fences, or cloth.
• Scatter operator to create feathers and foliage.
• Ornatrix V-Ray Primitive for smoothly rendering hair with low segment counts.
• Many more improvements to existing features including the addition of SeExpr, render attributes, and others.

Ornatrix costs $499 and a free demo is available.  See complete list of the new features on Ephere’s website and see a video of the new features on Vimeo.