ABOUT
The Maya Groomer's Tool is a set of scripts built to help with grooming tasks in Autodesk Maya. Even if you don’t use Maya’s XGen for your final groom output, many artists have found the tool incredibly useful for creating and editing curves. These curves can then be exported and used in other grooming software such as Houdini, making it a handy resource no matter your preferred workflow.
FEATURES
Interactive Curve Tools
Easily sculpt, add, cut, draw, attach, extend, or move curves in Maya—all without the need to switch to any dedicated grooming software. |
Braids
Create braids and cornrows effortlessly with a user-friendly tool, designed to generate styles in just minutes. |
Curve Extraction Tools
Extract from tubes, cards, edges, or from geometries made with the proxy managers. |
Proxy Managers and Hair Tube Builder
Use the proxy managers or the latest Hair Tube Builder to create geometries for rigging/animation, simulation purposes! |
Fill, Cut, Copy/Paste Curves
Easily fill in between of curves, cut curves, or copy/paste curve shapes. |
Curve Utility Tools
And there’s even more! You’ll find a bunch of handy Maya curve tools too—like snapping curves, converting PaintFX to curves, clumping or repelling curves, setting pivots to the root of curves, managing curve colors, and plenty of other cool features! |
XGen Guide Color
Offers an automatic way to color XGen guides, making it easy to distinguish between guides. |
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XGen Deep Backup
Saves XGen files completely, roll back to a previous version anytime, without losing data! |
XGen Blendshape
Quickly blend shapes between two topologically identical meshes. Classic XGen, or Groomable Splines. |
XGen Guides Utility Tools
Plus, there are tons of other XGen tools to make your life easier—like guide cut, an improved guide check tool, better guide-to-curves conversion, multi-clump baking, guide snapping, and so much more! |
