Completely redesigned grooming toolset with many new tools, and interactive brushes.

10-100× faster hair sculpting.

Fast planting: choice of single hairs or scatter brushes.

Extensive mirroring capabilities.

Powerful grouping and masking.

Native support for Vellum physics brushes

New Groom shelf tool on the Guide Processes tab that creates a Guide Groom SOP and switches the viewport to the grooming state. This tool combined with the new grooming radial menus allow you to quickly and interactively draw and style fur.

New workflow for creating and styling guide hair using radial menus and an improved Guide Groom SOP.

New Create Empty Guide Groom shelf tool on the Hair Utils tab that creates a Guide Groom object as a container for guide curves. Once this network is created, you can add SOP nodes to create and modify guide curves.

New Karma Hair VOP shader.