Hair Brick Documentation

Hair Brick addon is simply a tool that gives an interface to the new geometry node-based hair system. It also provides lots of modifiers that allow you to create any hairstyle.

Understanding the interface will make using the tool quite fun and easy.

Fig 1 (Hair List UI)

Explanation of (fig 1)

a. The pin feature allows you to retain the visibility of the pinned object, hair objects, and modifiers. Note if you want to add hair to a new object you must unpin the old object.

b. The plus Icon adds a new hair object on the actively selected object. Make sure the object has a UV map.

c. The minus icon removes or deletes the actively selected hair object in the list.

d. The comb Icon gets the selected hair object on the list and goes into the hair sculpt mode.

e. This duplicates the ac􀆟ve hair object and retails and the exis􀆟ng hair curves and modifiers.

f. This duplicates the ac􀆟ve hair object and removes the exis􀆟ng hair curves but keeps the modifiers.

g. This Merges the selected hair objects into one hair object. Note this applies the modifiers when merging the hair objects.

Hidden Gems for the Hair List UI

1. The list selection is synced with the viewport selection.

2. In the curve sculpt mode, you can switch between hair objects without leaving the curve sculpt mode, just me select the object from the list.

3. If you are already in the sculpt mode, you can add and duplicate new hair objects.

4. Alt + Q will also switch between Curve objects.