Blender Hair Grooming
Hair and fur in Blender 5.2 - hair curves on a surface, guides + interpolated children...
Install
npx skills add EL4CTEO/blender-skills --skill blender-hair-grooming -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- EL4CTEO/blender-skills651
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,237 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Hair and fur in Blender 5.2 - hair curves on a surface, guides + interpolated children with the bundled hair node assets (clump, curl, noise, droop), density masks, Principled Hair BSDF (melanin), Curves Sculpt combing, 5.2 node Hair Dynamics, game hair cards with a rendered strand atlas, Alembic/USD groom export. Use for hair, fur, beards, eyebrows, grass tufts.
Hair grooming
The execution model is in blender-core. Hair physics details are in blender-simulation, and look-dev in blender-lighting-lookdev.
One call each
scripts/groom.py -- --surface Head --mask Scalp --length 0.15 --children 150000 --clump 0.5
scripts/groom.py -- --surface Head --mask Beard --length 0.02 --droop 0.2 --curl 0.004 --melanin 0.9 --name Beard
scripts/groom.py -- --surface Body --length 0.025 --droop 0.3 --clump 0.3 --name Fur
scripts/groom.py -- --cards Hair --card-count 150 --atlas-res 2048 --out //textures # game hair cards
How pros groom
- Surface first: the scalp is a mesh (or the head itself) with UVs (hair attaches by UV) and a vertex group painted where hair grows. That group becomes the density mask, so soft edges give a natural hairline.
- Guides → children: a few hundred to a few thousand guides carry the shape, and thousands of interpolated children give the volume. Style the guides, never the children.
- Shape in layers: length, then clump (strands gather into locks), then curl/wave, then frizz/noise, then profile (thin tips). Keep each a separate modifier you can toggle.
- Comb by hand for anything hero: Curves Sculpt mode brushes (
Comb,Add,Puff,Pinch,Grow/Shrink,Smooth,Slide,Density,Delete,Pull Tips). Procedural droop gives a believable base, not a hairstyle. - Look-dev under the final lights. Hair reads mostly from specular and depth (clumps catch highlights), not albedo.
