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This extension enables maxwell to render hair. The data describing the guidelines is stored inside the extension in the .mxs file. Hairs can have all the same number of points or different point counts.
Besides generating its own geometry, this extension can generate also its own UV coordinates, using two types of UV generators. The first one generates lengthwise U's and it is useful for mapping different colors from the root to the tip. The second one generates hair-root UVs. It reads a user supplied array and assigns each hair a UV pair from the array. This is useful for mapping colors to the hairs depending on where the hair grows.
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