The update includes support for grooming hair exported from other software, new brushes and modifiers, and dynamic sculpting capabilities for some brushes.

OTOY has released Sculptron 2022.1 – its GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches – in early access.

The XB1 version, launched in June, added support for LWO file format, which makes it possible to groom hair exported from ZBrush. Sculptron now also supports Alembic curves. The hair can be groomed using new brushes: HairClump, HairComb, and HairMove.

Other new 3D sculpting brushes include Clip, MoveElastic, Rotate, and Scale. The Mask brush lets you paint masks to restrict sculpting operations to a particular part of a surface.

The update also offers new deformers, including Camera Lattice, which adds a grid in front of the camera, a Jiggle deformed, Motion Blur, and Push, which displaces the vertex along the normal.

Other changes include a new toon material for cel-shaded animation, new Spot and Area lights, and the option to render an animated preview of a scene to disk, including with OTOY's OctaneRender.

The newest XB3 version added a Dynamic option to the brushes, which is useful for creating cloth effects, and a new Wrinkle effect. The latter automatically creates wrinkles for animated models, according to the previous deformation applied to the mesh.

OTOY hasn't set a release date for the stable version of Sculptron yet.

Sculptron 2022.1 XB3 is available for Windows 10 and doesn't support Intel GPUs. You can get a subscription for €9.99/month (around $10/month).

Learn more about the update here.