• Tired of fighting Blender’s particle systems? Meet Hair Tool – the ultimate addon by Bartosz Styperek that transforms complex hair creation into an intuitive, artist-friendly workflow. Designed for character artists and animators, this tool generates realistic or stylized hairstyles with professional results in record time.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.

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 grid Guide Mesh - where hair strands follow mesh loops - great for modeling: long hair, buns, fringes, eyelashes etc.

• using Track To Mesh - where hair tips are glued to guide mesh - great for short to medium hairstyles

• grooming tools - that can be used together with Blender Curve Sculpt mode and procedural effects - Deformers

• drawing and extending hair strands similar to Grease Pencil drawing - now rewritten to use new hair curves,

• short hair modeling - for short to medium length hair - animal fur, short human hairstyles. Hair-cards will be spawn from each mesh edge.

• using shell hair modeling - great for very short hair: fur, carpets. Requires special material (there is UEngine material in HTool docs)

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 add-on auto-updater

• and more

Bit older videos (for Hair Tool 3 - but mostly still valid) showing some hair modeling techniques:

• 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