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(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 --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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