Ephere has revealed a new version of Ornatrix 2.0 for Maya, their tool for hair, fur and feather creation.

Ephere has revealed a new version of Ornatrix 2.0 for Maya, their tool for hair, fur and feather creation. The new update brings Moov Hair physics to provide a new way to simulate any type of hair, complex or simple, and more.

Features:

• Moov Hair physics to provide a new way to simulate any type of hair, complex or simple.
• Harmonic Oscillator operator to provide a quick and easy real-time way of simulating basic fur and hair dynamics.
• Normalize operator to fix intersecting hairs.
• Clumping operator with features like per-clump management and clump patterns.
• Braids Shape to allow creating procedural braid patterns on your characters with ease.
• Push Away From Surface operator for accurate surface penetration fixing.
• Resolve Collisions operator to robustly keep hair away from an object, with animation controls.
• Change Width operator with a better way of controlling hair width.
• Importing Alembic hair from external assets with all information intact.
• Adopt External Guides operator to use a separate guides object for controlling pre-modeled hair.
• Weaver and Weaver Pattern for generating woven hairs such as in rattan furniture, wire fences, or cloth.
• Scatter operator to create feathers and foliage.
• Ornatrix V-Ray Primitive for smoothly rendering hair with low segment counts.
• Many more improvements to existing features including the addition of SeExpr, render attributes, and others.

Ornatrix would cost you $499 with a free demo also available. You can learn more here.