HairCard Creator Plugin for Maya
HairCard Creator is a commercial third-party tool for Autodesk Maya designed to speed up the creation and editing of real-time hair cards.
The workflow is based on guide curves. You create guides on a scalp mesh, shape them with dedicated viewport tools, and generate procedural card meshes that remain editable through the HairCard Creator panel.
HairCard Creator is built for character artists, groom artists, and game artists who need clean, controllable hair card geometry for real-time characters.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/nHQk6swg1uU
Key Features
- - Guide-based hair card workflow
- - Procedural card mesh generation from guide curves
- - Card Shape controls: mode, segments, angle, width, rotate, twist, taper, distance, and reduction
- - Curve editors for angle, twist, and taper profiles
- - Add, sculpt, rotate, and align tools for guide and card editing
- - Collection-based scene organization
- - UV controls designed for procedural card meshes
- - Combine workflow for export-ready card meshes
- - Local Maya tool: no telemetry, no online activation, no license server
Compatibility
- - Windows 64-bit
- - Autodesk Maya 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027
Package Includes
- - Maya 2022 build
- - Maya 2023 build
- - Maya 2024 build
- - Maya 2025 build
- - Maya 2026 build
- - Maya 2027 build
- - Installation instructions
Support
For support, please contact me through ArtStation messages.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-sergun-8355b127b
Email: trigan1997@gmail.com
Release Notes
1.2.4 Fill, Recovery, and Workflow Update
- - Added Fill to the guide viewport marking menu. With two selected guides it distributes new roots along the segment between them; with three or more it distributes roots across the enclosed area. New roots follow the scalp and the generated guides interpolate the source guides and card settings.
- - Added independent in-place guide duplication to the viewport marking menu, preserving the source guide and card settings.
- - Added a UV Spacing Curve for adjusting longitudinal card UV distribution.
- - Improved Heal and scene recovery for damaged or missing card data, including better handling of renamed or deformed scalps.
- - Prevented failed Combine operations from leaving partial output meshes.
- - Added curated HC_* commands to Maya Hotkey Editor for common guide tools, duplication, copy/paste, conversion, and selection workflows.
- - Fixed UV texture loading when Maya returns a constant image mask by falling back to the Qt image reader.
- - Fixed custom-profile UV flip persistence and improved Mirror, scene reload, Undo/Redo, and large-operation stability.