Ornatrix grooming → bake pipeline for stylized characters
Wrote up the Ornatrix groom-to-bake pipeline I use for stylized characters, focused on two things that bite later if you skip them: keeping the groom mask-driven and editable (density / gravity / length multipliers painted in Substance, so almost every operator is mask-controlled without splitting the groom into a file per region), and a rigging-safe bake (case-sensitive naming / namespace, setDistributionMesh + Attach Roots, and a cluster deform test before publishing).
Curious how others handle the bake / handoff side, especially multi-mask animal fur and keeping baked hair deforming cleanly under a rig.
- Full breakdown:
- I also packaged the repetitive setup into a free MIT tool (Groomist): https://github.com/ruxinliang-dev/groomist
