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Facial Hair Toolkit earns its place in the superhive library for pairing a ready-made asset collection with hair cards creation and texture baking in a single Blender addon.
Facial Hair Toolkit is a Blender addon built around pre-made hair assets. Rather than building hairs from scratch, you shrink-wrap the supplied assets onto your characters and adjust them through controls for density, length and shape. It also streamlines hair cards creation and hair texture baking.
The library covers hairstyles, hair elements, eyebrows, beards, drawn eyelashes, and options to combine hairs and save your own. Hair presets let you use the existing ones or create your own, and you can distribute a custom hair mesh on hair curves alongside the generated hair cards. A guide on the developer's page covers exporting Geometry Node hair to Unreal Engine 5.
Recent updates have kept the addon current across Blender releases, adding compatibility through Blender 5.0, along with a custom assets path, a combine hairs operator, and a one-click save hair function. A video demo and documentation page are available for a walkthrough.
Facial Hair Toolkit is best for blender artists creating facial hair and hairstyles from pre-made assets, and preparing hair cards and baked textures for characters.
Facial Hair Toolkit is completely free to download and use.
Facial Hair Toolkit has added compatibility across several Blender releases through its updates, including Blender 5.0 in version 2.2.4, plus Blender 4.5, Blender 4.4 and Blender 4.2, with earlier fixes for Blender 4.1. In Blender 4.5, the Join operator supports the Curves object type, which became the default method for the Combine Hairs operator. For the exact current requirements, check the developer's page before installing.
Facial Hair Toolkit's developer provides a quick guide on exporting Geometry Node hair to Unreal Engine 5, so moving hair out of Blender into UE5 is covered. The addon itself focuses on creating hair assets, hair cards and baked hair textures within Blender, and the export walkthrough sits alongside the video demo and documentation page. For the step-by-step process, follow the developer's guide.
Facial Hair Toolkit lets you set a custom assets path pointing to your own hair asset folder, provided you use a valid full path rather than a relative one. You can save your current hair asset to a folder with the save hair function, which uses the current 3D viewport as a screenshot preview, and hair presets can be existing ones or ones you make yourself. A custom hair mesh can also be distributed on hair curves.
Facial Hair Toolkit is listed as free here in our catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, so check the developer's page on superhive for the current details before you download. The addon is distributed to meet the Blender extension platform standard, which it was reformatted to follow, and it ships with a documentation page and a video demo to help you get started once installed.
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