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Changelog

Version: 3D Hair Brush 4.7.4

Updated on 2026-07-22

Updates：

Support Blender 5.2

Fix the issue that Random Color does not work on hair cards in Blender 5.1

Changelog

Version: 3D Hair Brush 4.7.3

Updated on Mar 28, 2026

New Features:

Support Blender 5.0 & 5.1

The Weight brush now supports X-mirror.

The brush option menu is a pop-up menu now, which can be clicked multiple times in the panel.

For new hair system, the density mask of interpolated children hair also works for the parent hair.

Fix the issue that the view is not updated when adding or removing particle hair modifiers in EEVEE material preview mode.

Fix the issue that the hair cannot be hidden in particle hair edit mode when the Weight brush is selected.

Fix the issue that the particle Weight brush will exceed the border when smoothing weights.

Fix the crash caused by removing geometry nodes.

Changelog

Version: 3D Hair Brush 4.7.1

Updated on 2025-04-02

New Features

Support Blender 4.4

• Add a new function "Snap to Surface" to the list of Hair Menu in Hair Manager panel.
• Fixes
• Fix the issue that the position of the pinned point is moved when the hair curves are simulated.
• Fix the pie menu where the radius and strength of the curve brush can not be modified occasionally.
• Fix the issue that the brush icon won't be displayed when switching to Selection Paint brush in the pie menu of the curve brush.
• Fix the issue that the hair is not updated in real time when the texture options are modified and the procedural texture is used in a hair particle modifier.
• Fix the effects of the modifier when copying the hair particle modifier.
• Fix the issue that the children are not displayed in edit mode for hair particles in Material Preview mode for Cycles Hair engine.
• Fix the issue that the hidden instance objects of the original objects are not displayed in Material Preview mode for Cycles Hair engine.
• Fix the error which occurs when the textures are not combined when the hair cards are applied.
• Fix the direction of Specular for hair cards.

Changelog
Version: 3D Hair Brush 4.7
Updated on 2024-11-24
Supported Blender 4.3
Hair Manager
▪️Added support for new hair dynamics.
▪️Added support for instancing objects and collections for the new hair system.
▪️Introduced Simulate Hair node.
▪️Added an option Even Thickness to Simple hair children
▪️Random number generation in the Resample Modifier now produces integer values.
Convert Hair to Cards
▪️Added support for merging multiple hairs into a single hair card.
▪️Introduced two new bevel shapes.
▪️Added a random color option to the base color texture of the texture region.
▪️Provided an automatic layout option when removing texture regions.
▪️Added anisotropic effects and shadow adjustment options to card materials.
▪️Hair curves and hair cards now support modifiers from the Hair Manager.
▪️Optimized the conversion of hair effects managed through the Hair Manager panel into hair card effects.
▪️Added an option to crop textures when merging; if not cropped, provided a UV alignment option.
▪️Fixed an issue where the submenu failed to appear when clicking to add a modifier to curve-based hair or texture-based hair for the first time.
3D Brush
▪️Fixed an issue with the color brush where the corresponding color group could not be selected after painting with a sampled color.
Hair Modifier
▪️Fixed an error that modifiers don't work on the hair in linked collection or instanced collection.
Hair Presets
▪️Fixed an error that occurred when trying to remove unused materials while saving presets.
Hair Tools
▪️Added a function to even out the length of hair curves.
Cycles Hair
▪️Material Preview mode now supports the Vultan backend.
▪️Material Preview mode now supports display of instanced models and hair.
▪️Fixed an error that hair thickness has no effect when rendering hair instance.