HairTG - Surface, Feather Edition  

HairTG – Surface, Feather Edition is a procedural feather texture generator for Substance Designer. It generates PBR (Physical Based Rendering) textures for game engines/renderers as well as outputs which may be used in 2D works/illustration.  It is provided with 2 manuals and a 4-part, 2h+ video tutorial.

HairTG – Surface, Feather Edition has been nominated for the Substance Designer Insanity Awards 2020! 

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Contents

• The feather tool in sbsar form plus various utilities
• 12 example feathers (sbs)
• Example tiling graph and feather cover graph (sbs)
• A User Manual and a Reference Manual
• A 4-part, 2h+ video tutorial

Main Features

• Generation of procedural PBR (Physical Based Rendering) feather textures of variable shape, density, color and many other configurable aspects.
• Extensive shaping controls at the feather, barb and shaft levels.
• Curve support enabling to vary parameter values along the length of the feather or the barb (up to 19 parameters per vane may be driven by curves).
• Simulation of the afterfeather section (thin hair/barbula at the bottom of the feather) with curve-driven break-up within barb components.
• Handling of break-up sections inside the vane’s barb using curves.
• Outputs the following PBR maps: Mask, Alpha, Depth (Height), Color, Flow (Direction), Normal, Roughness, Ambient Occlusion up to 8K in resolution.
• Outputs Grayscale and Color Art maps suitable for 2D/illustration purpose, each of them supporting multiple display modes.
• Per-vane properties so each vane may have a different shape/color etc. Some properties are also common to both vanes.
• The overall 2D curvature of the feather can be designed in the 2D view using control points.
• Multiple colorization modes, including per barb component and vane overlays.
• Configurable shaft thickness, height and coloring.
• Vane and feather 3D aspect configurable with depth profiles.
• Tiling tools to assemble feathers into single large textures.
• 2D and 3D renders inside Substance Designer.

Usage

HairTG - Surface, Feather Edition is designed to be used with Substance Designer 2020.1 or above.

License Notice

Licenses are single seat only. You cannot resell or distribute the package or some of its content into a form that would expose it to reuse.

This is a compatibility update for Substance Designer 2020.2.2 which changed the way SBSAR graphs are referenced from user graphs.

Version 1.0.1 of the tool is compatible with Substance Designer 2020.2.2 and above but not with previous versions of Designer, so if you are using an earlier version please use 1.0. 

If you need support to convert your own graphs using the feather tool to Substance Designer 2020.2.2 please check the Release Notes document in the package's Documentation folder or join the Discord support server at https://discord.gg/bxgSbX6