Hair Tool 2 (for Blender 2.93 up to 3.5)

This documentation is old, for latest Blender 3.6 and 4.x use Hair Tool 3 !

Hair Tool

Hair Tool is Blender addon for creating hair cards based on 3d curves.

This addon will help you generate hair card with uv's and much more:

  • generate and groom hair ribbons (based on blender particle hair)
  • generate hair ribbons from guide grid mesh
  • drawing curve hair (or particle hair) on mesh surfaces
  • learn and quickly block out hair from Hair Library examples
  • automated uv (random uv area is assigned for each spline)
  • uv texture preview directly on curve ribbons
  • easy and convenient switching back and forth between curve ribbons and mesh, while preserving uv's
  • adjust ribbons looks (tapering radius, randomizing tilt, editing profile)
  • convert Curves to Particle Hair, Particle Hair to curve ribbons, Curve ribbons to mesh ribbons and so on.
  • Curve Resampling - increase, decrease curve/ribbon points count
  • Generating vertex color/weights gradients for mesh ribbons.
  • And More!
Video Tutorials
Other online Tutorials
Addon location

Hair Tool Pie Menu

It is best to use addon from Ctrl+Shift+H Pie Menu (hotkey can be changed in preferences). There is also Hair Tool panel - located in right Sidebar(N): "Hair Tool" tab.

Installation

To install Hair Tool you need zip file from your Gumroad account. Then, inside Blender, go to:

  • Edit -> Preferences -> Add-ons, and click 'Install' button.

And navigate to hair_tool_2.xyz.zip file location.

Installation For Blender 2.8 use hair_tool_2.x zip files!

Updating

Hair Tool has build-in auto updater which will download and install the latest add-on release. To use auto updater go to:

  • Edit -> Preferences -> Add-ons -> Hair Tool -> press Check for update.

In new version is found, press Update addon button, wait few seconds and restart blender.

Note: To avoid constant email notification update spam, I publish smaller updates/bugfixes without version number bump. Only after implementing enough of new features/bugfixes publish official new version with increased release number. If you want go grab 'smaller' bugfixes, but addon shows, that you already have the latest version, use Reinstall Current Version. It will download these smaller incremental bugfixes.

You can also download updates manually by getting new zip file from your Gumroad account. You should have received download link to zip file, with email when you purchased Hair Tool.

Note: It seems auto-updater does not work on Mac OS. As a Mac user you will have to download update manually from Gumroad account. Now it should work on Mac too.

Update Addon Checking for new version of Hair Tool from Preferences panel

Support

Hair Colors For support or bug reports use this discord server.