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You want the iris to be at the center of the flattened circular region, if I'm not mistaken. That would be very easy to set, you just have to rotate the whole eye with the squishing rotation: 1. If you pause the video at 58:44, get the first 'Vector Rotate' node (the left one) and duplicate it with its connections (Ctrl Shift D). 2. Check its 'Invert' checkbox. 3. Add a new 'Set Position' just before the other Set Position (in the video frame). 4. Plug the output of the copied Vector Rotate to the 'Position' input of the new Set Position. This will rotate the eye texture with the squishing rotation. You can add a Switch node, if you want to make a control out of it. Technically, it will be "cross-eyed" once you do that 😅, but I know what you mean, "visually". Though, if the angle of the squish is too great, the eye movement will start to look unnatural. In that case it's better to have separate eye objects, and maybe even separate target objects. Hope this was clear, let me know if it worked out.

@@denoa3D Wow, I really appreciate the speedy reply! This is close to what I want, but I was just hoping to rotate it slightly. This does indeed make it a little too cross-eyed in the other direction. Is there a way to control this more precisely?

Yes. Simply add a Mix Vector right after that new Vector Rotate and use a Position node for the second input of the Mix. That way you can control the amount of shift.

@@denoa3DThat's it! Amazing, thanks for the help!

Hi. That usually happens when the root of the hair changes its relative angle with the base, so the curve normal gets recalculated each time the hair moves, getting all wonky. I've accounted for that in latter versions, so make sure you use the latest version of the addon and rig the base mesh to a Bone, not with Armature Deform. Also, one thing might help is to increase the Effect Factor slider a bit higher, so it ignores the hair root. I can't really recreate that issue, so if these things don't help, send me an email with some more info so I can look into it.

@@denoa3D Thx for reply,I'l send you an email.

Hi, check the answer to the pinned comment, I think you have the same issue.

You can use the add-on on bezier or path curves as well. There you can edit them normally. Otherwise you can edit hair curves in edit mode with proportional editing on, but that is less useful than sculpting.

No, this uses the updates to geometry nodes past version 4.0

@@denoa3D How do I use that eddon in blender 3.4? I would appreciate it if you could attach the link.

Yeah, that's a part of Blender that is kinda annoying. Unfortunately, I don't know of any solution, apart from, as you said, set the falloff to Projected.

Kind of. If you convert the hairs into mesh and combine them in a single object, you can't bake the textures right away, because the combined mesh will have overlapping UV islands. If you try to bake, the last UV layer to be baked will override all the others. You really need to pack the UV islands before baking, but if you do, some of the textures that come from attributes will shift around, so you won't have the same effect. Here is a workaround you can try: 1. Create a high-poly copy of the hair curves, convert them and merge. 2. Bake any texture you want from the material to color attributes (create new ones for the bake, you can use Face Corner data for better resolution) 3. Pack the UV islands. 4. Now you can bake the color attribute to an Image Texture. You can get access to it in the shader with a 'Color Attribute' node. 5. Then you can use the Image Texture in the low-poly version of the hair. Obviously, this has some drawbacks, but the higher poly you have your burner mesh, the better the quality of the texture. You also have to pack the UV islands the same way in the high and low poly versions of the hair mesh. Hope this works out for you.

unfortunately the addon is crashing blender. not sure how to diagnose

simply changing the eyelash count crashed blender

i don't suppose you would make a simpler lightweight version?

Hey, that's weird, I can't recreate this issue. What Blender version are you using?

@@denoa3D 4.2

Check the mesh density of your base mesh. Try to make it as low poly as you can.

@@denoa3D its currently at 800 faces

For the demo character exactly, yes. The material really, is what you make of it. The shades from the addon will work on both render engines.

Yep, that is something I am working on!

Hi. You can't easily do that right now. I am working on stand collisions for the next update 🤗

​@@denoa3D oh, thank you for replying me. So I will wait for the next update :) when do you plan to release it?

I did it myself a couple years ago simply by trying some of these noises until it looked nice.

I can definitely do that. I was intending to do an update to the generated armatures to be a bit more useful. Just out of curiosity, what would be a good starting point for the armature chain - further up the hair strand or backwards, into the head of the character?

@@denoa3D especially in anime style models, the bones tend to begin lower down the hair. this can prevent bangs from moving too much, allow for ahoges to stay in place, or have the back of the head stay in place while the ends can move. i think the option to have it go all the way to the root is still good to have, for ponytails it would be essential. i dont know if moving it into the head would be useful, though.

Yep, definitely could do that in the update. If you want to do that now, you can just move the 'root' joint further up the hair strand while using Volume snapping.

That happens when you parent the hair curves or the base mesh to the rig with the Armature Deform. Instead, parent to the bone directly, through Pose Mode.

@@denoa3D Thank you so much, now it works perfectly!! Your addon is truly magical!! 👏

If you use the add-on and are making an animation in Blender, you can use the dynamics for that. Otherwise, your best bet is to convert to mesh and rig it. You'll get the most control that way. The third way is to create physics sim with Geometry Nodes, but that is quite difficult.

Yep, I will do a full character tutorial, using this type of hair, you can look out for that!

Hard to say. I have a lesser card and don't experience much lagging. Typically, when it comes to viewport stuff, the CPU is the limiting factor. Though, you should really experience slow down when there are a lot of hair strands. To help out, you may want to lower the hair geometry resolution from the 'Settings' section. Also, I find that sometimes the 'Surface Deform' modifier which is added every time you add a new hair curve slows the viewport a bit. If you don't intend to use it, remove it. It might help.

@@denoa3D Thanks for the fast reply! And also I didnt have time to test it but I also used a higher geometry mesh to create the basemesh so could it also be due to that? Neverthless, I'm gonna try what you told me. Thanks again!

@@kurozeitsuki7846Oh yeah, absolutely, I forgot to tell you that. Having a dense base mesh impedes performance heavily. If you have a high poly character, create a separate low poly base mesh for the hairs, that is slightly hidden inside the main mesh. You can also hide it from the render layer.

@@denoa3D yeah i did another lower basemesh and now it run great! Thanks for this addon!

What Blender version are you using?

Only older versions. The latest version requires Blender 4.1.

How did you parent the hair to your rig? To have it properly work, you should parent the base mesh of the hair to the head bone in your armature directly (select the head bone in Pose Mode and parent the base mesh/hair curve). Also, check for any cashed bakes. To be certain, delete any bakes and re-bake the simulation again.

@@denoa3D The character has animation baked, and I just selected the character mesh and set up the hair. If I turn off dynamics, the hair follows, but if I turn it on, it freezes and stretches (I also baked the hair model). I think the parenting is probably done... I'm still learning, so I'm sorry if this is a misunderstood question.

Remove the parenting from all hair strands. Also remove any 'Surface Deform' or 'Armature Deform' modifiers they might have. Then select all of the hair strands and finally the armature, so that the armature is active. Go to pose mode and select the bone that moves the head (if it is head hair), and press Alt P > Bone. This will parent the hair strands to the bone directly. Now the dynamics deformation should work like intended.

@@denoa3D It worked! Thank you for developing such a great add-on! I also purchased the eyelash and eyebrow add-on. I'm looking forward to seeing how your add-ons evolve.