Is it possible to create a curve brushe that uses hair cards like in Tom Creeks video?

Hi! I’d like to create a curve brush that uses hair cards like in this Tom Creek’s video:

I’d create the hair card meshes in Blender like in this video and create a curve brush on Nomad (in the video, Tom Creek uses ZBrush instead) that uses these meshes to manipulate them. I started using Nomad this month so I haven’t explored Nomad’s brush creation a lot but I think this could be possible. How can I do it?

You can do this with the tube tool and hair card textures.

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Hello Holger, thanks for your reply!

I have looked into this tube tool and tried to create a crossed cards profile like in Tom Creek’s video. This is what I got:

Ideally the cards wouldn’t be merged. I don’t know if nomad has a way to combine different profiles separately (or have unconnected profile points). Also these cards don’t have the UVs needed for hair cards textures. So ideally I’d need to have a way to import the profiles from Blender (where I’d organize each set of hair cards profiles with correct UVs) to Nomad’s Tube tool. Is this possible? How?

I don’t use hair cards myself.
The tube has UVs - there is a checkbox at ADD Primitives to activate the UVs.
With the Tube, you can give each Curve Node a different profile.
But take a look at this video:

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Thanks. I’ll take a look at these vídeos.

It seems like Nomad’s tube tool can’t use premade cards as a custom profile. I’m thinking about reposting this thread as a feature request. Can I do that?

You can save your profiles into the tube tool and reuse it

All I do is change the profile to open and make it a single line. Add the hair card texture and job done. Not sure what you’re trying to do but seems you’re missing the simplicity of it.