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Hair Card UV Tool V2
The Hair Card UV Tool V2 is a powerful Blender add-on built to make hair card UV unwrapping, alignment, and packing faster, easier, and mathematically precise. Whether you’re creating realistic hair for games or stylized hair for animation, this tool streamlines your workflow and delivers clean, optimized, game-ready results in minutes.
| ⚡ 1-CLICK UNWRAP Automated Seams & Up-Orientation | 🧠 DUAL-ENGINE AUTO-DETECT Quad, Tri & Mixed Hair Cards | 📦 SMART PACK & OVERLAP Maximized Texel Density |
• Auto-Detect Quads vs. Tris: Automatically identifies each card’s topology—pure quad cards, triangulated cards, and mixed hair models are each processed with their ideal algorithm in a single click.
• 100% Horizontal Cross-Rungs on Tris: Strictly levels cross-edges horizontal (ΔY = 0), completely eliminating diagonal texture twisting and checker stretching.
• Follow Active Quads Restored: Quad hair cards unroll into clean, un-skewed rectangular grids.
• True 3D Proportions: Preserves actual strand length and width without stretching cards into arbitrary squares.
• Blender 5.2 LTS & 4.2+ Extensions Ready: Fully verified with modern context overrides and bmesh memory safety.
🚀 Features at a Glance:
1. One-Click UV Unwrap
Instantly generate clean UVs for hair cards. The add-on automatically detects volumetric tubes vs. flat ribbons, marks optimal underside seams, and aligns roots upward without manual unwrapping steps.
2. UV Alignment & Straighten All Strips
Keep hair strands perfectly straight, uniform, and aligned. Instantly straightens dozens or hundreds of hair cards simultaneously into clean rectangular strips. Works flawlessly on quads, triangles, and hybrid cards with triangular tips with zero diagonal shear.
3. Smart UV Packing & Overlap
Optimize texture space with professional precision. Pack strips tightly or overlap matching cards into customizable sets (e.g. 10, 20, or custom cards per set) to dramatically boost hair texel density on your texture atlas.
| 🎯 Advanced UV Organizer Define source islands and snap/align target hair cards with pixel-perfect precision and manual fine-tuning tools. | ⚡ Batch Processing Work on multiple hair cards or complete grooms in one single action without tedious card-by-card isolation. | 🏁 Checker Map Preview Integrated checker material toggle with dynamic tiling slider to verify texel density and catch any stretching. |
Along with the add-on, you receive two ready-to-use hair models (one male hairstyle, one female hairstyle) plus high-quality hair opacity and diffuse textures — perfect for testing the tool, learning the workflow, or kick-starting your next character project right away.
🎯 Who It’s For:
- Game Developers creating optimized, real-time hair for Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot.
- 3D Character Artists needing fast, clean, and distortion-free UVs for hair card groom assets.
- Creators & Studios who value speed + mathematical quality in their Blender pipeline.
| 📌 Compatibility: | Blender 4.2 LTS, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 LTS (Backward compatible with 2.80+) |
| 📌 Extension Support: | Blender Extensions Platform (blender_manifest.toml) & Standard Add-on (.ZIP) |
| 📌 Topology: | Pure Quads, Triangulated Cards, Hybrid (Quads with Triangle Tips), Mixed Models |
| 📌 Category: | UV Tools, Hair, Modeling, Game Development |
Save Hours of Manual UV Work and Focus on Creativity
Get the Hair Card UV Tool today and create game-ready hair cards in minutes!
