This feature is still under development. The current functionality is unfinished and subject to change, and may have thin or no documentation. Please bear this in mind when using it.

This component attaches a hair, fur or feather groom to a character’s animated skin shape. This relies on the APEX Add Groom SOP to add a set of mandatory groom shapes as well as a groom skeleton first. APEX Add Groom already includes & executes this component, so it isn’t necessary to use it separately for the default workflow.

However, you may disable Set up Rig on the APEX Add Groom and use this component afterwards instead. This allows you to make additional tweaks to the character between the APEX Add Groom and Guide Deform SOP. You can, as an example for such a tweak, manipulate guide properties on the groom skeleton to gain more granular control over the control shapes created for the groom. The default values of the various name parameters below match the APEX Add Groom’s defaults for the required elements and usually don’t need any changes.