V15.04.05.01

***NEW LAUNCH COMMAND REQUIRED IF YOU ARE FROM V15.02's OR OLDER

Released 05/04/2026

Hair Tube/Card Builder:

Both Builders

• [NEW] Randomizer

• New UI allows setting random values on selected strands. (On the Builder’s main UI, Mesh-> Randomizer)

• offers three modes, Offset, Set, Multiply, with min/max controls.

• The ‘Smoothing’ button for Hair Tube Builder, and the ‘Orient’ button for Hair Card Builder are moved into the ‘Mesh’ button.

• [NEW] New Duplicate Modes:

  • Duplicate Into A New Layer - Allows strand selection from different layers to be duplicated into a new layer.

  • Duplicate - Fill In-Betweens - Duplicate and fill in between selected strands. 2 or more strand selection is required.

  • Selecting a mesh ‘last’ will auto orient new strands to the mesh.

• [NEW] Wrap Deformer added to allow using a geometry to control your path curves. Make sure you have enough CVs on path curves for deformations to avoid pinching.

• [NEW] Quick Layer Color Swatches - Right clicking on the layer color will now show two rows of colors.

  • Old Color Editor is still accessible with ‘left-clicking’ on the color swatch.

• [NEW] Insert Layers - Added the ability to insert selected layers above or below a layer, available in the right click options

• [NEW] Batch Rename Layers - Added the ability to batch rename layers

• [IMPROVE]: Layer row will now stretch with the main UI

• [FIX] Deformers - When there is a lattice, wrap deformer applied to path curves, duplicating a strand will cause errors. This is guarded with a warning message to bake them first, and operation will not proceed.

• [FIX] Twist Ramp and Scale Ramp window from the Strand Editor, if open, will now also close properly upon Main UI close now.

Hair Tube Builder

• [NEW] Orient - reworked the logic of Hair Tube Builder, and added the ability to orient Tubes to a selected mesh.The ‘orient’ option is also available in the “Paint Strand Tool”.

• [FIX] Fixed a bug duplicating layers.

Hair Card Builder

• [NEW] Ability to set soft edges on card strands from the Strand Editor.

  • All existing presets will be automatically set to 30.

• [FIX] Card: Fixed a bug in the ‘Randomly Paste UV’ function.

  • Important: To use this version, please Update your scene by -> Menu -> Update to Current

Maya Curve Color Tool:

• [NEW] Ability to import XGen Descriptions as layers

• [NEW] Layer Linking with XGen Descriptions

  • Allowing quick conversion of curve layers to XGen guides.

  • A small button is added to indicate if a layer is linked with a Description (green), or not (grey)

  • Right clicking on a layer will allow you to link, or remove link to an XGen Description on ‘all selected’ layers.

  • Under the Scene Preset Menu -> Hide/XGen Guides upon Converting layers option is also added.

• [NEW] .fbx / .abc export - We can now export curve layers to .fbx or .abc for external softwares such as Houdini.

  • Exported curves will be grouped under a master group called ‘xgt_curves_grp’ and each layer will be grouped under it.

  • If you are using the file in Houdini, curves can be sorted by using ‘@path=/xgt_curves_grp/’layer_name’*.

  • Note: alembic files on Windows tend to be locked when it is imported in external software such as Houdini. To counter this, please export a new .abc file.

• [NEW] Export/Convert button is added for Exporting and Converting to XGen Guides.

• [NEW] Quick Layer Color Swatches - Right clicking on the layer color will now show two rows of colors.

  • Old Color Editor is still accessible with ‘left-clicking’ on the color swatch.

• [NEW] Layer Highlight - Selecting curves will also have its layer highlighted on the UI

• [NEW] Insert Layers - Added the ability to insert selected layers above or below a layer, available in the right click options

• [IMPROVE] On UI close, hidden layers will now be toggled back to visible.

• [IMPROVE] Layer row will now stretch with the main UI

• [IMPROVE] Ability to batch rename layers

Interactive Curve Tool:

• Sculpt Tool

  • [NEW] Falloff Controls

    • Added falloff controls, influence multiplier and influence falloff.

• [GS] Hide Geo While Dragging

  • This option will now also work on GS Curve Tool’s individual or bound curves/tubes. The setting is intended to boost feedback speed when sculpting on many strand curves.

• [IMPROVE] Smoothing

  • Smoothing algorithm updated to make it feel more natural, now will only affect influenced CVs on click, and on drag.

• [FIX] Smoothing

  • Fixed a bug when Smoothing curves that would also smooth CVs not inside the radius influence.

• [NEW] Enable Scale/Rotate hotkey

  • A few users had crashes with the rotate hotkey on Tube/Card Builders, we now have the ability to turn these off.

• [NEW] All settings will now be stored when the UI is closed. To set it back to default values, use Edit -> Restore Default Settings

• [IMPROVE] Warning messages for Chinese language added.

XGen Guide Toggle Tool:

• [IMPROVE] Toggling will now filter all Maya Curves and toggle only XGen Guides

XGen Multi Clump Bake:

• [Improve] UI is now a workspace control and allows docking.

Main UI:

• [NEW] Adjustable + Label UI

• A larger, more readable UI mode (Auto Adjust + Label) is added to the main UI.

• To switch, go to Account -> UI Settings -> Auto Adjust + Label

Activation Window:

• [FIX] switching language