Hair Waver 1.0 - for Blender

Bring Your Characters to Life with the Hair Waver 1.0.

ℹ️ This is a procedural hair waving tool, that is meant to work with the Hair Curve objects in Blender.

It uses a custom Geometry Nodes modifier. You'll need v3.5+ of Blender for it to work properly!

👌 It works great with the Stylized Hair Curves setup, that you can find in my profile:

〰️ This creates a waving effect to your hair curves, that simulates wind blown hair.

👇 Here is what you can expect:

👇 I've added many controls that should give you INFINITE variations of the effect!

👇 Here are some examples of the different variations of the controls:

1. Wave Strength - Set different amplitudes to the wave.

2. Wave Speed - Choose how fast the waving will play.

3. Wave Frequency - Set the frequency (wave length).

4. Noise - Add randomness to the waving.

5. Direction - You can pick a random direction or define a manual one.

6. Length Factor - How far the length of the curve the effect will apply.

😉 Combine these and other settings to get wildly different effects!

👇 A demonstration of some other applications (that I've cobbled together quickly):

😊 You can also create looping animations without even thinking about it - it's all automatic!

Note: Very strong noise effects might not loop very well on really short animations (under 100 frames).

Here are some instructions on how to set up:

👉 After you download, you'll find a .blend file that has the geometry node setup. Open the file.

❗ If prompted to allow execution of a python script - allow it. It is a driver that reads the frame range of the animation, so that the modifier works as intended. If it doesn't work, you might need to input them manually (see the green boxes in the node tree for instructions).

➕ Add the 'Hair Waver 1.0' Node Group to your assets for easy importing.

➕You can also append the node group (Hair Waver 1.0) from this file to your project.

⚠️ More instructions on how to use are inside the readme and the .blend file.

Release Notes

v1.1 - UPDATE

- I've tweaked the inter-dependencies of the settings, so now they should generate fewer nonsensical results and more waves that actually look good and make sense.

- I've also reworked the Noise, so that now it looks much nicer when the animation is looping.

- Added a 'Flip Flow Direction' option - just in case you need it.