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We are a passionate group of artists with two decades of experience in creating full-length animated films. We want to to share our journey, insights, and expertise while fostering a community around this project.
Zec L
This is a really great tool for hair grooming but I think there is a bug where I tried exporting alembic and it just crashes.
Dec 09 13:26
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Zec LReplying to Ahoge
Ahoge, I'm using 2025.1. I will update to 2025.3 and give it a test. thanks!
Dec 10 13:09
袁浩
left is maya ，right is blender export to maya ，why。
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Dec 12 01:40
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袁浩Replying to Ahoge
Ahoge, Thank you very much！I succeeded！
Dec 13 09:39
Hair #3 Version 001
Maya scene with this hairstyle ready for render.
hairstyle_#3_v001.mb430.21 KbDownload
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Artemisia Campagna
hi!
I cant seem to get arnold to render with its hair shader. It just renders black. any idea?
I cant seem to get arnold to render with its hair shader. It just renders black. any idea?
Ahoge
Artemisia Campagna, it's hard why it's black without more information. USD export will be added in the future. There's Alembic USD Plugin and Alembic files can be used in place of USD files.
Artemisia Campagna
also would it be possible to export curves as USD since its becoming the new standard file exchange between DCCs?
great tool so far...keep going!
great tool so far...keep going!
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Ahoge Version 0.5
ahoge_maya_2023_version_0_5.zip292.74 KbDownload
ahoge_maya_2024_version_0_5.zip298.98 KbDownload
ahoge_maya_2025_version_0_5.zip296.82 KbDownload
Changes:
1. Performance.
Ahoge wasn't exactly slow, but we weren't happy with its performance. Maya's NURBS implementation isn't thread-safe, so I decided to implement my own NURBS surfaces that can run in parallel. This version is almost ten times faster on my Ryzen 7 1700. If you have more cores and faster memory, you should see an even bigger performance leap than this.
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Joseph Liu
Hello, fun question. How could you support alembic for Marmoset? I tried to use a script to combine curves into one shape in Maya but in Marmoset all curve shapes are still sperated. Seems that Marmoset reads more than Maya shape nodes. Could you give me a hint about how you support Marmoset alembic? Thanks
Ahoge
Joseph Liu, I'm not quite sure I understand your question. The ahoge shapes are currently exported as separate Alembic shapes. In the future, I might consider adding a feature that combines them into one.
Hair #1 Version 001 rendered by Arnold GPU
Ahoge
L猫大人, I'm not sure what the question is. There's a video about Arnold GPU rendering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gxLrv9PIMY
Ahoge
Adithya, no. Because Ahoge can't be compiled against older versions of MtoA without rewriting everything.
Ahoge Version 0.4
ahoge_maya_2025_version_0_4.zip287.32 KbDownload
ahoge_maya_2024_version_0_4.zip287.73 KbDownload
ahoge_maya_2023_version_0_4.zip281.11 KbDownload
Changes:
1. Color and width are now displayed in the viewport.
2. Color controls have been added.
The color is exported to Arnold as a custom primvar called ahoge_color. You can use the aiUserDataColor node with the attribute ahoge_color.
3. Ahoge has been slightly optimized and should perform better.
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Emmanuel Dotre
after installing by drag and drop, copy paste the downloaded files in documents- maya,- version, -2025, -modules then go to maya (install the plugin) -windows,-settings,- plugin manager,- ahoge
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If the installation fails, you can try putting all the files in documents-maya-20xx-modules
Ahoge Version 0.3 Maya 2025
ahoge_0003_maya_2025.zip277.21 KbDownload
The Maya 2025 version hasn't been tested yet, and feedback is needed.
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Ahoge
LAOMUSIC ARTS, I'll try to compile Ahoge for Maya 2018 a bit later. It might have issues because it's only been tested with Maya 2024 at the moment.
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