New Plugin Maya Hair Tool, GMH v2.6 for Autodesk Maya Sneak Peek

littleclaude

GMH v2.6 is a hair plugin tool for Maya, its also free for those who already have the plug in

GMH v2.6 for Autodesk Maya Sneak Peek
http://www.pluginsfree.net/2015/03/gmh-v26-for-autodesk-maya-sneak-peek.html

Not sure how to embed on Polycount?
www.youtube.com/watch?t=25&v=sHXnOX29DJg

"Instead of spending days on creating hair model for character with complicated set up, ton of curves and combing, using GMH2.6 saves a lot of time - working with hair now take only few hours or even a few minutes."

Kwramm

neat! thanks for posting

pior

LC : just paste the youtube adress with as little fluff as possible. Sometime it requires one to remove the "s" from https ... and sometime it doesn't

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ9fCBff2_I[/ame]


Dustin, yeah, that's been my experience when working with v2.0 too - it seems pretty damn powerful when it comes to creating and handling complex hair systems based on simple source geometry ; but actually creating this base geometry remains a manual task. That being said, 2.6 seems to have a new tool for this purpose, as indicated by "Next-gen polygon hair generation" - but who knows what it really does ...

To be fair I suppose that GMH could still be helpful for us in the sense that it allows for fast iteration with an almost realtime volume preview. Which in turn could possibly be used as a guide for further modeling ... maybe ?

iadagraca

I would hope those textures could be edited to get more "painterly" looks

PyrZern

Wait, it will be free ? Thought they been selling it.

iadagraca

Ah yes, seems it's a free upgrade for people who already own 2.

the plugin is 40 bucks tho which ain't bad, i'd buy it if it really worked well for game characters and i could customize the textures.

pior

Pyr : probably not free, since v2.0 was not and there is no mention of the plugin suddenly becoming free anywhere.

Now of course that website which has an article about is called "pluginsfree", but most of the plugins listed there are commercial. Confusing name is confusing !

The actual source is :
http://www.thundercloud-studio.com/index.php?page=/shop/1.script/0.GMH2/GMH26_sneakPeek/

Makkon

This is cool and all, but it doesn't look like it's made with game artists in mind. Brute-force modeling of hair is still required, and UVs would probably need a lot of cleanup to cut down on unique UV islands.

littleclaude

Sorry guys I got it totally wrong :poly122: can someone edit the title?

GMH v2.6 is a hair plugin tool for Maya, its also free for those who already have the plug in

iadagraca

Makkon wrote: »

This is cool and all, but it doesn't look like it's made with game artists in mind. Brute-force modeling of hair is still required, and UVs would probably need a lot of cleanup to cut down on unique UV islands.

I'm hoping it takes more basic poly hair and transforms it into something more advanced like i've seen in the tutorials. If it does this i think it could help a lot. As for UV's i dunno, maybe it just repeats one hair texture? Could be easy.

newfych

Hi, i'm in process of writing tool for Maya to work with Zbrush IMM Hair strip brush. For now - it's free version. Features: you can unwrap UV's with one mouse click. You can organaize your scene by creating different groups of hairs. Critique is wellcomed. Most usefull comments authors will receive full version of plugin for free. Link video : [url]

iadagraca

Autodesk needs to port hair in Maya LT even if it can't render it, Just for these plugins.

I got access to the beta but couldn't use it sadly, i was so excited too.