What is New?

Working with geometry

• FBX support for imported geometry, plus textures. The texture manager opens with a double-click on the texture toggle ▦ (for models with UVs).
• New default look for imported geometry: per-polygon flat shading, like ZBrush — quad diagonals no longer get in the way.
• New display toggles next to the eye: ▦ — textures, ◐/○ — normal shading or Flat with no lights or shadows.
• On imported meshes Thickness and Mask are now one modifier with two brushes. The weight colours show only while you work on it — the rest of the time the mesh keeps its plain colour and doesn’t distract.

New curve mode — Flat lock

Glued locks without manual cleanup

• ⟳ Recalculate glued locks in the group’s Settings prepares glued locks for conversion: shared trunks are welded, facing walls are closed from the fork. One Ctrl+Z undoes it all.
• The converter sews the seams along shared anchors and drops sliver faces by itself.
• Merge distance can be typed or picked with the pointer, and hair tips no longer get glued together.
• Loops: a fork moves onto the nearest loop with no extra edge; no more extra or dense loops at forks, spiral loops, zigzags on diagonals or a dense band under a guide.

X forks, filling and scissors

• Two curves welded into an X now have independent upper and lower zones. Walls round an X are made without cutting the curves — you can rebuild the shape at any time.
• ◎ Detect the fill outline here: point at a hole, Shift+RMB and up — the outline is highlighted and the program picks how to fill it.
• Split ends — a new Scissors mode: click a curve and it splits into two branches from there to the tip.
• RMB line: drag with RMB across curves to put anchors where it crosses them.
• Lasso instead of the box for selecting anchors.

Modifiers

• Visibility and opacity of all modifiers — one ⬡ Modifiers control in the Display menu. At 100% a modifier is fully opaque.
• Modifiers work with X-ray, show in symmetry, and Apply symmetry copies them with Mask, Thickness and Twist.
• Modifier guide lines are easier to see, profile points each in their own colour.
• A group’s Density, Cap and Fill show in its Settings.

Display

• 👁 Display — every visibility and opacity setting in one drop-down bar.
• ◐ One colour — the whole model in one colour, without the group colours.
• Mesh smoothing (Smooth normals) turns on with one tick for every selected mesh.
• Service curves got short names and their own outliner column, and no longer clutter the viewport.

Misc

• Space — a pie with every tool.
• ⧉ Lock select — click a curve to select the whole lock; 📌 Pin keeps an item’s settings shown.
• Double-click a number to type it, Ctrl + drag to change any number.
• Loop step is set by itself when you import a head into an empty scene — to fit its size.
• ⛨ Collision — curves stick to an imported mesh and don’t pass through it.
• The Convert window folds, Active Tool floats in the viewport corner, window help sits under a “?”.
• Names can be typed in Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
• Fixed gizmo jumps in split view and the slowdown from a switched-off guide.

Hotkeys changed

• Space — the tool pie (hold and release towards a tool).
• Tab — the camera menu and split view (was Space).
• 1 / 2 / 3 + LMB navigation removed — use Alt or the middle mouse button.

Download

• Stylized HairMesh Creator Setup V1.0.2.exe — Windows installer. Over an earlier version it updates (Update button); your projects, presets and autosaves stay.

• Stylized HairMesh Creator Linux V1.0.2.tar.gz — Linux (see README inside).

• Stylized HairMesh Creator HTML V1.0.2.zip — no installation: unzip and open hair-modeler.html in Chrome or Edge.

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