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Mesh To Groom Converter
Convert a sculpted wig or hair-card mesh into a Groom asset, bind it to a skeletal / MetaHuman face, and preview, style, and hand-groom it in a standalone editor - no Alembic cache required.
About This Product
Mesh To Groom Converter turns a hair mesh into a real strand Groom. Import a sculpted wig (Tripo, ZBrush, Blender) or hair cards, open the Mesh To Groom editor, and trace geodesic flow or card centre-lines into strands that Unreal's groom system can simulate, LOD, and bind. Each layer becomes its own hair group on the saved groom, with its own meshes, conversion, style, appearance, physics, and replayable brush strokes. Save Groom writes the UGroomAsset and, when a target skeletal mesh is set, rebuilds the UGroomBindingAsset in place so a re-groom never leaves a _Binding1 behind while the character still points at the first bind. Conversion sliders cover strand count, roots, hidden-surface cull, clump, curl, frizz, colour transfer from the mesh texture, and hair physics. Eight viewport brushes (Select, Comb, Grab, Smooth, Cut, Puff, Clump, Noise) record a stroke list that replays after every rebuild, so you can keep raising Strand Count without losing the part you combed. Blueprint and Python entry points convert a recipe, build a preview groom, dump the conversion report as JSON, and generate hair-card LODs through the engine Hair Card Generator. The plugin ships code only (no Content folder). Unreal Engine 5.8, Win64.
Features
Standalone Mesh To Groom Editor
Live viewport, Details, Layers panel, and eight viewport brushes. Create the asset under Create Advanced Asset > Physics > Other, next to Groom Asset.
Layers as Hair Groups
Each enabled layer is one hair group with its own meshes, conversion, style, appearance, physics, and grooming strokes. Older recipes migrate into a layer on load.
Surface Flow and Card Centerline
Surface Flow traces geodesic flow on sculpted wigs, with root-band and detached-shell rescue for ponytails and buns. Card Centerline converts ribbon / card hair.
In-Place Groom Binding
Save Groom writes the groom and rebuilds the binding in place, so re-grooms never leave a _BindingN while the character still points at the first bind.
Style, Colour, and Brushes
Clump, curl, frizz, length/width taper, and colour transfer from the mesh texture. Comb, Grab, Smooth, Cut, Puff, Clump, and Noise record strokes that survive rebuilds.
Physics and Scripting
Enable Simulation is written into the saved groom by default. Blueprint/Python: ConvertRecipeToGroom, BuildPreviewGroom, GetReportJson, GenerateHairCardsNoDialog.
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