Blender Addon | Hair Shape Key | VFX Grace
Introduction
Hair Shape Key is a Blender add-on with the support of adding shape keys to hair and creating transition animation between them. Users can switch between the different shapes freely, keyframe animation, which gives more possibilities and controllability to handle hair in Blender.
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Instruction
Requirements
- Windows10/11: Blender 2.81a or above.
- Ubuntu 18.04/20.04: Blender 2.81a or above; GCC 7.4 or above.
- macOS 10.14 or above: Blender 3.3 or above.
Features
- Create hair shapes and create transition animation between them.
2. It can work with a Noise modifier
3. Use a driver to control animation.
Installation
Hit Edit on the menu bar, then Preferences - Add-ons - Install, and select the zip file to install.
Note
Compatibility with previous versions has been fixed. Please refer to the tutorial for more details.
Changelog
V6.1
Updated on Aug 12, 2024
1. Support Blender 4.2.
2022-11-21 v5.4
Support Blender 3.3
2021-12-20 v5.3
Support Blender 3.0
2021-06-20 v5.2
Support Blender 2.92 & 2.93. Blender 2.79 is not supported. GCC above 7.4 is required on Linux.
2021-01-05 v5.1
Support Blender 2.90, 2.91 in Windows.
2020-01-26 v5.0
Bug fixes.
Add some functions—Delete Keys, Delete Particles, Subdivide and Update Added Hair—to support re-editing the number of hair’s points.
2020-04-15 v4.0.0
Fix compatibility with previous versions in v3.0.
2020-03-02 v3.0.0
Change from single-file editing to multi-module editing, and reduce the repeated code and the unused features
Modify UI
Add continuous support to multiple shapes
Bugfix: keyframe and driver are not deleted after the deletion of the shape key
2020-01-07 v2.32
Support shape key animation, play driver, and update rendering in Blender 2.79b and 2.81a.
Bug fixes
2019-11-03 v2.15
Bug fixes: hair shape can not be updated when rendering; shape keys controlled by driver won't update
2019-03-24 v2.1
Support Blender 2.80
2019-03-09 v2.0
Auto-update animation
Add auto-update for driver shapes
One shape key supports multiple keyframes
2018-12-17 v1.5
Support multiple keys.
2018-12-19 v1.4
Optimize the size
2018-11-26 v1.3
Fix errors.
Improve speed.
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