The Hair tab

All hair lives on one tab, Hair, at the end of the strip. Long hair, short cuts, bangs, eyebrows, beards, eyelashes, hair cards and grooming are all tools on that one tab, and every piece of hair on the head is one row in one list.

TabHair, at the right end of the stripToolsthe shelf under the stripListHair Manager, at the top of the left panelLibraryHair library, in the right panelEdit, Donethe pill under the view, or PUndoCtrl+Z

The Hair tab: the tools on the shelf, the Hair Manager with every piece of hair on the head, the picked object's controls, and the hair library on its Long tab.

Two ways hair is made

Every hair object is grown as real strands. They are made one of two ways, and you can mix them on one head:

Grown from the skin. A hairstyle, a buzz cut, a beard, eyebrows and eyelashes are grown straight from the scalp or the face, and shaped with sliders: lengths, fade, comb, curl. See Short hair and Eyebrows, beards and eyelashes.
Built from shapes. Long hair is blocked out with soft shapes you place on the head, called tubes, and every tube fills with strands. Caps, bangs, curtains, braids and ponytails are ready made sets of them. See Long hair.

Any hairstyle can then be drawn as hair cards instead of strands, the textured strips games use. See Hair cards. And any strands can be combed and lengthened by hand with a brush: see Grooming.

The shelf

While Hair is open, the shelf under the strip holds every hair tool. A click on a tool adds that hair to the head, or starts placing it. The left panel always shows the controls of the tool or object you are working on.

Tools	What they make
groom strands, strand length	Open the grooming brushes: grab to bend strands, scale to lengthen or shorten them. See Grooming.
square tube, circle tube, path tube, clump, cap	Long hair shapes you place by hand. See Tubes, paths, clumps and caps.
umbrella, bangs, baby hair, Curtains, curly, locks & braids, cornrows, fringe, bun, ponytail, Blocks	Whole kinds of long hair in one press. See Long hair styles.
eyebrows	A pair of brows, each on four dots. See Eyebrows, beards and eyelashes.
hairstyle, buzz cut, short crop	Hair grown over the scalp from sliders. See Short hair.
full beard, mustache, chin, jaw, cheeks, eyelashes	Facial hair and lashes. See Eyebrows, beards and eyelashes.

The Hair Manager

The Hair Manager at the top of the left panel lists every piece of hair on the head, one row each. Click a row to pick it: its controls appear under the list, and in Edit its dots and curves show on the head. You can also click the hair itself in the view.

Control	What it does
Box	Shows or hides that object.
Name	Double click to rename it. Objects made with symmetry on come in pairs named L and R.
⇄	Mirrors a tube to the other side of the head, making its twin.
⧉	Duplicates it.
×	Deletes it. `Ctrl`+`Z` brings it back.
Strand, Haircard	On hairstyle rows: draw this hair as strands, or as hair cards made from it. See Hair cards.

The hair library

The right panel is the hair library: ready made styles as pictures. A click puts a style on the head; every control stays yours to change afterwards.

Control	What it does
Import mode	Append: what you pick joins what is on the head. Replace: it takes the place of what is there. Bangs and eyebrows are one of each, so a pick restyles them either way. Eyelashes are always replaced. Hair never takes off the brows or the facial hair.
Random	Puts on a random style from the category you are looking at.
Short	Above the ears: crops, fades, buzz cuts, pixies, short twists and afros.
Medium	Ear to shoulder: bobs, shags, mullets, shoulder curls and locs.
Long	Past the shoulders, and updos: buns, ponytails, braids and long locs.
Bangs	Bang styles: a click restyles the bang on the head, or lays a new one.
Eyebrows	Brow shapes.
Facial hair	Mustache and beard styles. In Append, a mustache style restyles only the mustache, a beard style only the beard.
Eyelashes	Lash styles. Their colour stays.

Edit and Done

The pill under the view switches between two looks, and is named for the one it goes to. Edit shows the picked object's curves, dots and blockout shapes so you can shape it. Done hides every helper and shows the hair as it renders. P switches between them.

Grey head, at the top right of the view, shows the skin in one neutral grey while you edit hair, so only the hair carries colour. Leaving the hair tools brings the colour back.

Quality

Two settings decide how heavy the hair is in this browser, for every hair object. They are in the grooming panel and under hair on the Settings tab.

Control	What it does
Rendering quality	Low: each strand a camera-facing line, the fastest. Med: a flat ribbon. High: a ribbon with more segments, for smooth curls. Curly hair and locks are always drawn as High.
Strand density	High grows each style as made. Med and Low grow fewer, thicker strands for slower machines. Realistic grows twice as many, thinner.
Card detail	Only while a hairstyle is set to Haircard. See Hair cards.

Colour

Every hair object follows the character's hair colour unless you give it its own. The colour controls sit in the picked object's panel:

Control	What it does
Natural colour	The colour comes from two pigments, like real hair. Picking a root or tip colour, or a template, dyes it instead; tick it again to go back to natural.
Melanin	Dark pigment: 0 platinum, then blond, light brown, brown, dark brown, 1 black.
Redness	The red pigment's share: 0 ash and cool, 0.5 warm, 1 auburn and ginger.
Root, Tip	A colour at the root and one at the tip. ↺ follows the character's colour again.
Templates	One click root and tip pairs.
Salt & pepper	The share of grey strands, 0 to 100 %.
Grey pattern	Where the grey starts: 0 at the front and parting, 0.5 even, 1 at the temples and above the ears first.

NoteHats are not on the Hair tab: they are in Accessories. A hat presses the hair under it.

Common problems

What you see	Why	What to do
I cannot find the Haircard tab	There is none any more.	Use the Strand, Haircard switch on a hairstyle row in the Hair Manager. See Hair cards.
The hair has dots and curves all over it	You are in Edit.	Press Done or `P`.
The skin went grey	Grey head is on while you edit hair.	Press Grey head again, or leave the Hair tab.
The frame rate drops with long hair	High rendering quality or Realistic density.	Set Rendering quality or Strand density lower: it changes only this browser, not the character.
A slider does nothing while I drag it	Many strand sliders rebuild every strand, so they apply when you let go.	Let go of the slider.