AVASCOT Groom Shader – Hair & Fur – Unreal Engine
AVASCOT Groom Shader is a hair and fur shader built specifically for strand based groom workflows in Unreal Engine.
It is designed to give you flexible, high quality control over hair and fur rendering in Unreal Engine.
It supports natural variation, art direction friendly parameters, and production ready setups suitable for real time characters,
cinematics, and interactive projects.
Please note: This shader supports strand based grooms only. Hair cards workflows are not supported.
KEY FEATURES
Support for up to 5 distinct groom areas
Blend area system with standard blending modes or a probability based distribution
Advanced control over fur variation, including per hair selection and soft variation between individual fibers
Detailed root and tip controls with adjustable transition contrast and color length variation
Additional color mask section for localized and targeted color variation
INCLUDED
A full tutorial explaining every shader parameter
A complete walkthrough on a real production asset
A demo scene to test and explore the shader
A curated set of variables used in our high quality grooming pipeline
A setup for painting multi-channel masks in Substance Painter
PERMITTED USE
You may use this shader in finished products, including games, cinematics, films, real time experiences, and other interactive or non interactive projects, whether personal or commercial.
RESTRICTIONS
You may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, or otherwise make this shader available, in whole or in part, as a standalone product or as part of any asset, product, or package intended for resale or distribution.
This includes bundling the shader with character, animal, groom, or hair assets that are sold or shared.
Technical details:
Number of Materials: 1
Number of Material Instances: 1
Number of Textures: 0
Supported Development Platforms:
Windows: Yes
Mac: Not tested
Supported Unreal Engine Versions: 5.7
Important/Additional Notes:
The AVASCOT Groom Shader is located in the Unreal Engine content directory at:
00_AVASCOT/MATERIALS/AV_GROOM
This folder contains the master groom material and all required material used by the shader.
Enable the Console Variables Editor from the Plugins window, then open our CVC file to access and use our custom groom variables.
Make sure your groom is exported with the Root UV attribute.
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