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Features

Garibaldi Express is the complete professional hair solution for DAZ Studio.


Offering cutting-edge features that rival the most advanced hair generation software available, Garibaldi Express redefines what is possible with entry level 3D graphics software. Designed from the ground up to offer powerful yet easy tools to let anyone create breathtaking hair and fur quickly. Let your imagination run free don’t be restricted by your software.

In just six simple steps to create amazing hair and fur results. Here is some of the feature highlights:


Paint:




Complete control with garibaldi’s build in 3D paint engine. Just simply paint on to your characters surface to control almost any aspect of the garibaldi hair system. From where on the surface the hair grows, to the hair colour, where to add more clumps and frizz to your fur and many others. Adding spectacular variation is so easy.

Based around familiar paint brush tool settings with additional geometry masking features painting is completely intuitive. For though fine details and advanced effects quickly export and import textures from your favourite image manipulation application for full control.

Distribute and Colour:


Quickly specify where and how much hair to add to your character with seamlessly even follicle distribution.

Add hair colouring with base and tip colour texture maps. Add controllable root darkening and hair strand colour salt and peppering for that professional quality.

Style:


Styling many thousands of hairs can seem a daunting task but with Garibaldi’s style curves and unique smooth interpolation technology even the most complex results are quickly possible.


The right tool for every job...

  • Use the comb brush to quickly comb or stretch style curves into place. Don’t worry about accidentally moving the wrong curve to the wrong place with geometry occlusion and intersection technology, only move curves you can see to places on the outside of your character.
  • Need to change the length of style curves then choose the right tool for the job with the interactive cut brush or scale and extend tools.
  • No need to start from scratch with curl and surface attraction tools to quickly add or remove style to your hair.
  • Take full control with custom curve selection masking, save and load selection masks to exactly direct your edits to the areas you want.
  • Remove guess work from the equation add those perfect final touches with the curve vertex editing tool.



Hair Parting made easy...

Advanced automatic hair parting technology takes away any need to use tedious work arounds to add hair partings. Hair partings become as simple as moving a slider or add a controlling paint map for full procession. Creating amazing results is unbelievably quick and easy.



Clump:

One of the most important parts of realistic creation of hair and fur is simulating the way individual hair strands interact with each other to create hair clumps. Garibaldi offers interactive advanced multi layered clumps with full control of amount, strength and style with the simplicity of value sliders and control texture maps.




Tweak:



Garibaldi automates the time consuming task of adding fine details with professional quality fractal noises that can used to add detailed scraggle and frizz to almost any aspect of your garibaldi hair style. Finish your hair styling with hair length variation to add realistic feathering to your hair.

Render:


Modern hair shading algorithms with simple controls quickly give your renders that production quality finish.

Take advantage of advanced rendering techniques to make efficient use of your computers memory, you’ll be amazed of the detail that can be rendered on even a modest computer in a short time.


Feature breakdown:

General/Integration:

  • Tailor made editor user interface
  • Multithreading computation.
  • Background computation processing.
  • Multiple redo and undos.
  • Intergraded into DAZ Studio Node interface.
  • Automatic hair position updating during posing and animation.
  • Tooltip Help.
  • Interactive selection of DAZ geometry surfaces to use as hair scalps.

Realtime Preview:

  • Multi-sampling antialiasing.
  • GPU hair width previewing.
  • Per pixel geometry lighting.
  • Intuitive camera control with keyboard shortcuts.

3D Texture Painting:

  • Powerful control over most 'Garibaldi Express' Settings for precise editing.
  • Colour and Greyscale texture map support.
  • Saves texture maps as part of your DAZ Studio file.
  • Export to organised PNG image files.
  • Import from PNG image files.
  • Familiar paint brush settings.
  • Simple management of multiple texture maps.
  • Geometry back face culling.
  • Multi-sampled geometry occlusion.
  • Texture fill and invert features.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for setting brush size and intensity.
  • Pen tablet pressure support.
  • Various guide preview helpers.

Distribute and colour:

  • Seamless uniform hair follicle distribution.
  • Follicle distribution texture map control.
  • Hair Base and Tip width control.
  • Hair Base and Tip colour control with texture map control.
  • Hair strand colour salting with density, minimum and maximum intensity controls.
  • Hair strand colour peppering with density, minimum and maximum intensity controls.
  • Density percentage and length hair preview options.

Styling:

  • Interactive styling curves previewing.
  • Style curve selection tool with visible geometry selection occlusion options.
  • Style curve control point selection and move tool with curve length retaining solver.
  • Style curve comb paint tool with optional length retaining solver with visible geometry selection occlusion options.
  • Style curve interactive scissor cutting tool.
  • Style curve scaling tool.
  • Style curve extend and retraction tool.
  • Style curve curl tool.
  • Style curve surface attraction and straightening tool.
  • Geometry intersection correction during style curve editing.
  • Automatic curve resampling during curve length changes.
  • Curve selection list creation options.
  • Hair curve segment length options.
  • Linear and Unique smooth hair interpolation from style curves options.
  • Base and Tip extrude from interpolation blending with bias and texture map controls.
  • Automatic parting with angle threshold option and optional texture map multiplier.
  • Density percentage and various other hair preview options.

Clumping:

  • Two high quality clumping deformers.
  • Automatic parting conforming.
  • Clump density amount controls with texture map multipliers.
  • Strength controls with optional texture map multipliers.
  • Base Tip bias controls with optional texture map multipliers.
  • Density percentage and various other hair preview options.

Tweaking:

  • Random length deformer with maximum shrinking amount control with optional texture map multiplier.
  • Two scraggle noise deformers.
  • Ability to apply scraggle deformer to clump 1 or clump 2 curves, hair before clump 1 or clump 2 deformer, hair before clump1 deformer, hair before frizz deformer.
  • Scraggle strength controls with optional texture map multipliers.
  • Scraggle noise frequency controls with optional texture map multipliers.
  • Scraggle noise multi level fractal controls.
  • Frizz deformer with hair base and tip strengths and optional texture map multipliers.
  • Density percentage and various other hair preview options.

Rendering:

  • Render hair density percentage control.
  • Automatic hair position transformation during rendering.
  • Advanced hair rendering memory optimisations.
  • Modern realistic hair shader.
  • Hair shader optimisation controls.
  • Hair shading controls of ambient, diffuse, primary specular, secondary specular with glints and transmission.
  • Optional optimised traced ambient occlusion shading options.