GBH Tool for Blender

Key features:

• Built on the new Blender hair system
• Ability to use curve, curves or mesh object as base for hair object
• Fast generation and easy property editing with just a few clicks
• Capability to create various types of hair, such as hair strands, stylized hair mesh, and hair cards for video games
• Convenient creation of braids, curls, and rolls
• Vertex color-based hair distribution on surfaces
• Full UV map control (uniform or separated by length)
• Hair conversion to mesh, curve, curves, or particle system for further operations
• Pre-made node groups and sample materials library
• Ability to load node groups and materials from your files into library
• Hair rigging and automatic weight painting
• Hair card texture creation

Check out GBH Tool's manual for more detailed info.

Installation:

In Blender: Edit -> Preferences -> Add-ons -> Install -> Select downloaded zip and enable check-mark

Requirements:

• Blender 3.5 or later

Roadmap:

• Automatic weight painting (is now available on v2.2.0 alpha)
• Hair simulation and animation related features
• Improvements for hair cards creation

The detailed roadmap can be found here.

*If you have any features in mind, you can propose them on GitHub or alternatively contact us using any of the links below.

Links:

GixoXYZ@proton.me

Credits:

The mesh to hair feature is inspired by this Post from 80LV, so please consider checking out Abir "Xeofrios" Dutta's awesome work on their Gumroad.

A portion of this add-on includes code from Antti Tikka's Modifier List Blender add-on, please consider checking out their work on their Github.

License:

GPL-2.0-or-later