Hair Library

Hair Library presets Some of the presets from Hair Tool hair library

Hair library contains more than 30 hair presets (male and female hairstyles), plus few of the base components (fringe, braid, tails, eyelashes etc.), that you can be imported into your project, and snapped to your character.
These hair presets were made to be nondestructive, meaning that you can edit them to your liking, without having to groom everything from scratch.
New presets can be added with option to group them into categories (folders).

Installation

You'll need to download "HairLibrary_xyz.zip" from Gumroad to use it (its comes together with Hair Tool addon).

  1. Go to your Gumroad purchases > Hair Tool and get the library zip file.
  2. Unzip the HairLibrary.zip file somewhere on your drive,
  3. Go to Blender settings > Addons > Hair Tool > Library (tab),
  4. Setup the library path with location of the folder where you unzipped the HairLibrary files

Let me know if you have any trouble!

Main Panel

  • top half of Library panel is responsible for managing categories (folders),
  • bottom for managing presets (files inside folder)

License

Hair Library presets Some of the presets from Hair Tool hair library

License - CAL-NA-NRB. Basically you can do everything with the assets:

  • commercial use of base asset and modifications,
  • no requirement to credit the author,
  • reselling of modifications,
  • modifications are allowed, and can be shared

The only thing you can't do is to resell the assets as they are. Reselling base items is not allowed

Library location

User Preferences > Add-ons > Hair Tool > Library tab.

Select target folder where library is located:

Main Panel You can add multiple library paths with [+] icon. This way you can keep your presets separate, from the ones that come with Hair Tool

[☰] Categories menu

  • Add, Delete, Rename category (folder)

Note - Renaming and Deleting categories requires selecting target folder with '+' button next to the category name.

[☰] Presets menu

  • Add, Delete, Rename, Open active preset (the one that is currently displayed with thumbnail).

After importing preset with Append button you will often have to readjust position of imported hair objects to you character head. For grid surface type of hair - you can remove imported Curve Hair and reposition only grid surfaces. Then just regenerate curve hair again using Curves from grid mesh

Appending Preset

First part of video shows how to append preset from library. Second half of video covers creation of your own presets and how to store them in library.

Preset Creation

To store preset:

  • select objects you want to be saved in your preset (you can select multiple objects)
  • Open Create Preset sub-panel and click Store in Library.
  • Enter preset name in popup window (there will be warning if you try to override existing preset)
  • Select rectangular area in 3d View (it will be used for thumbnail generation):
    • left click and drag in 3D Viewport. You can adjust the corners of captured area if you want.
  • Finally, press [Enter] to store preset.