v0.29.3 18 October 2026

Realistic hair and beards

• Characters & skills

• Hair and beards are now built from strand cards (alpha-tested, double-sided, casting shadows) over a thin matte shell, instead of a painted-on cap. Generated per character by and cached.
• Every style rebuilt: cropped (two close layers), long (side-swept fringe, falls past the shoulders, sways), topknot (sides short, top drawn into a bun), crest, braid (slicked back into a three-strand plait), shaggy (layered and unruly).
• Beards: moustache, short (dense close cards), full, and long (with a chin fall). Sideburns join the hair on fuller styles.
• Hairlines melt into the skin instead of showing jagged low-poly edges.
• Helmets: a trimmed helm-safe version shows under head gear; beards stay.
• Performance: no transparency sorting (alpha scissor), one material, worst case (long hair + long beard) under 4,500 triangles, and hidden in first person.

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