Luxology Releases modo 301

[grrinc]

Animate?? What like, animate? Then yes!!! Joy!!

[ViCoX]

YAY! Now I can animate my render threads!? : )

[Swizzle]

Wahoooo!!!

[ctguitars]

http://www.luxology.com/whatismodo/ - Modo 301 features

Animate YES Animate - http://www.luxology.com/whatismodo/animate.aspx

Keep in mind its keyframe animation - no bones or rigging ( Char Anim ) - YET, soon to come Id say, next big release. BUT their is .MDD support now to Character Animate in another app and bring it back into MODO for Texture/Final Render.

Cheers
Aidan

[grrinc]

Oh cool!! Like Bryce then?

[leuey]

mdd's work quite well (I use point oven with Maya) - you can also animate morphs, all the material channels, lights, etc. They keyframe animation is basic - 301 is 'time enabled' as Luxology would say.

-Greg

[sacslacker]

I'm pretty impressed with the sculpting. Luxology definitely improved the overall "feel" of their painting tools. The sculpting is much more advanced than I thought it would be. For my first hour of playing, it feels pretty darn solid. $295 well spent I think.

[ysvry]

well for bones anim I advise the free blender then.

[GQ1]

Congratulations team Luxology,
on a truly impressive upgrade for Modo. :thumbsup: :applause:

I totally agree that the painting and sculpting tools are better than I thought.

Also did anyone mention it is available on Windows and Mac Os to download now.

[LetterRip]

A user tested doing character animation with Blender and then exporting as MDD and it works quite well as mentioned in Brads 'modcast'.

LetterRip

[drdespair]

A user tested doing character animation with Blender and then exporting as MDD and it works quite well as mentioned in Brads 'modcast'.

I want to see some Blender fluids in action, rendered in 301!!!

[FR33K]

does Modo 301 finally have a proper toolset of modeling tools like

- Multisliding of points/edges with relativ mode ?
- Loop cut with preview/highlighting where i cut ?

[LetterRip]

I want to see some Blender fluids in action, rendered in 301!!!

Unfortunately fluids change their vertex count during an animation (ie drops form and escape etc) so MDD doesn't work for a fluid. You can export as a series of obj (which is how most programs get fluid from Blender to their software of choice). The downside is that while the fluid generates a vector map for motion blur which is used in Blender it isn't something that can be used by other software (AFAIK).

Anywho the new modo videos show off a really nice usage of their sculpt tool - adjusting a morph target with the sculpt tool as the animation loops.

LetterRip

[Phil Lawson]

I want to see some Blender fluids in action, rendered in 301!!!

I successfully exported fluids into modo 301 a few weeks ago via this process:-

Blender -> OBJ sequence ->3DSMax -> .FBX -> modo 301

Motion blur was still a problem, but even max had problems with it.

[DDS]

mmh....my experiences with modo are real bad. UI is great, 3d paint, render....all has amazing features, but it crashes so much and also has many graphic card compatibility problems, that my company stopped using it. Yes, after weeks of mails back and forth with Luxology.

Pity, but I'll give 301 a try anyways. Worth it! :D

[fretshredder]

As someone who traditionally uses Cinema4D, but has tried the demo (203) and loved it .... I think this is a great time to jump in and add 301 to my toolset.

This release looks AWESOME! Luxology -- way to go!

[Grolicus]

I like the fact that they move forward while still significantly improving the existing app, whether it be the existing toolset, the UI, the render speed & quality, etc.
It's a cliché, but I guess it's because Luxology really stays in very close contact with it's userbase (which is rare nowadays) that the updates seldom dissapoint.
Great update.

[etobler]

Good job Lux! for those that have tried it, how does the sculpting compare with mudbox, zbrush, silo, and the like? i read that you can't go up and down in sub-d resolution, isn't that important?

[Venkman]

Those developers must be eternally caffeinated. My God, the pace at which they crank out features.

I can't keep track of all the different tools that are avaiable. It makes it very difficult on what to try to learn and what to buy!

[ctguitars]

Good job Lux! for those that have tried it, how does the sculpting compare with mudbox, zbrush, silo, and the like? i read that you can't go up and down in sub-d resolution, isn't that important?

Hi Etobler,

I upgraded to Modo v301 and asked this exact thing. Go here:

http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=19740

Cheers
Aidan

[Mike RB]

Good job Lux! for those that have tried it, how does the sculpting compare with mudbox, zbrush, silo, and the like? i read that you can't go up and down in sub-d resolution, isn't that important?

Mode has 2 kinds of sculpting, mesh sculpting is limited to the points you have, so no different sub-d levels there. However, with image sculpting you don't need anything but your base mesh and can change the rez of the limit surface to taste.

[cresshead]

i heard they dropped the .ma importer in 301 and 'replaced ' it with fbx
can someone confirm this?
sounds odd to drop an importer filter...why not just 'add' fbx importer?

[Imhotep397]

i heard they dropped the .ma importer in 301 and 'replaced ' it with fbx
can someone confirm this?
sounds odd to drop an importer filter...why not just 'add' fbx importer?

That's not completely accurate. Apparently AutoDesk phased out the .ma material out of the sdk and made the Maya Ascii format structure significantly different, thus shutting developers out in the cold. FBX should be a good replacement though as long as Max isn't in the pipeline. I've heard Max has poor support for fbx.

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