Hair Grabber 2.999

*new feature, clump maker 2.0 a new way to work with multi card clumps using a UV transfer vertex deformations as well as selection tools for switching from control geo to clump geo. all in the extra menu tab. For now only working in the maya 2020 and earlier versions. will port to new mayas once it works smoothly.

######## installing pymel in newer versions of Maya

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-2AA5EFCE-53B1-46A0-8E43-4CD0B2C72FB4

######## Im including a mostly working version for maya 22 and on. the affected files are in thehairGrabber27to3.zip ##########

I have most of the functions transferred to the new maya using python 3, however, the save and load of presets isnt operational.

here is the maya 22 and 23 command:

import hairGrabber2_9to3

import imp

imp.reload(hairGrabber2_9to3)

grab = hairGrabber2_9to3.HairGrabberUI()

A comprehensive tool set for authoring and modifying hair cards.

Just like the popular predecessor this updated version comes with a new more flexible GUI and new key features. 

Facet fill to cover much more space when filling in between hairs is added to the traditional linear fill.

The ability to snap the different hair parts to the scalp automatically, including the angle of the root in relation to the scalp geo normals.

The ability to scale and rotate the hair cards along their lengths, equalize the width of the cards across the length, and equalize the spacing in the edge loops.

Experimental context based geo painting algorithms to paint hair cards in to existence as well as nudging and smoothing them.

ability to snap, align and push the cards out of the scalp geo.

unzip and place .py files in "documsnts\maya\mayaVersion\scripts\" , .png files in "documsnts\maya\mayaVersion\prefs\icons\"

Run this command in a python tab in Maya without the ''':

'''

import hairGrabber2_9

reload(hairGrabber2_9)

grab = hairGrabber2_9.HairGrabberUI()

grab

'''