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# V15.04.05.01

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