I made some hair tools. I’m curious to see what the community thinks of them and whether they’d be worth trying to sell. It’s a project I’ve been working on, on and off, since 2017/2018 for christopher robin.
We had this problem where framestore had delivered a final groom without any guides and expected us to deform it, so I started building up these tools to avoid rebuilding the groom from scratch and hoping it matched. I found the default houdini guide deform tools a bit lacking.
These tools can select good representative guides and deform a dense groom, while doing a reasonable job of retaining the shape. It has some tools for post processing/resolving collisions and a husk procedural with the same capture/deformer logic.
If you have any time or inclination to try it out, this zip file has the hdas and a scene that demonstrates some workflows and examples.
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