Dear Character Creator Users,

We are pleased to introduce some new features in version 3.4:

• Smart Hair - Hair, Beard, Brows: Brand new Smart Hair system provides the most realistic, yet performant hairs, brows, and beards for Digital Humans. With its component-based design and Smart Hair Shader system, users can easily create hair variations and expand their hair collection.
• CC3 Base+ Update: Support ExpressionPlus (ExPlus) custom blendshapes (ARKit, tongue), tongue morph slider, viseme for iClone's AccuLips for more expressive facial performance.

Smart Hair -Hair, Beard, Brows



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In version 3.4, Character Creator formally supports facial hair content including beard and eyebrows, which will contort with the expressions of the face, and also conform perfectly to different face/head shapes. To provide more flexibility, hair and beard content are designed based on the idea of component system, which means that hair and beard settings are separated into separate elements that can be mixed and matched for different looks.

*Note: The current beard and eyebrows are only for CC3+ and Game Base characters. Only hair can be applied to other character generations. 

The idea of component system design: 

• Style (*.rlHairStyle) - the fastest way to switch the full hair, beard and eyebrows of character at once
• Group (*.rlHair) - switch a pair of hair, beard or eyebrows of character
• Element (*.rlHairElement) - switch the parts of hair or beard

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What's more, version 3.4 supports new generation of hair shader (Smart Hair Shader) for variety in hair color and visual quality. By utilizing Flow, Root, and ID channels to control corresponding parameters, you will be amazed by how easy it is to present ombre color gradients and specular variation in Character Creator.

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You will get some sample hair and facial hair content with the free update. Reallusion also provides users with optional Facial Hair, and Hair content packs. 

Beard & Brows Builder
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Prime Hairstyles
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*Note: about physics capability of those hairs >> Know More

Some Important Information You Should Know about the Update

Developer Guide to Create the Smart Hair (Official wiki is coming in April)


CC3 Base+ Update



CC3 Base+ character is updated to support ExpressionPlus (ExPlus) for more expressive facial performance. ExpressionPlus (ExPlus) consists of a new set of advanced facial performance derived from human scans including tongue morphs, with 1:1 mapping to ARKit blendshapes, it can significantly improve facial mocap using iPhone, and gives more expressive options to Face Key Editor. In addition, optimized visemes are included for Accurate Lipsync (AccuLips), giving CC3+ characters convincing facial talking animation.

Visit the webpage to see full information.

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