Modo 301 Reviewed on Subdivisionmodeling.com

[el_diablo1]

I think image based sculpting idea is excelent, however the main question is how high does it go? Is 4096x4096 usable? Can u subdivide enough to see all the detail and keep some interactivity?

What about bigger maps?

[Mike_RB]

I think image based sculpting idea is excelent, however the main question is how high does it go? Is 4096x4096 usable? Can u subdivide enough to see all the detail and keep some interactivity?

What about bigger maps?

You can use multiple uvmap and multiple layered images. And you can work on a 4k but its a little slow, but a 4k map is potentially 16million sample points.

[bobakabob]

A lot of what modo is doing with image based sculpting is cutting out the middleman. You don’t have to do a hi-res geometry sculpt and bake down to an image and then apply that image (not even a vector image) to low-res geometry that will be animated. You simply sculpt on your low-res geometry via a vector displacment map from the get-go. Modo’s renderer will dice it down to millions (or even billions) of polys at rendertime. The sub D level (up or down) will just give you a more or less accurate portrayal of your map in the viewport.

I can see people who are used to level stepping in zbrush feeling Modo’s mesh sculpting is more limited (it is in that regard) - but there’s more than 1 way to skin a cat in modo. You can rough out a shape with mesh sculpting and UV it with the excellent UV tools - send it to zbrush and bring back a high-res model or baked images. You can even use modo’s sculpting tools to tweak out the model once it’s back in modo. Or just use Modo’s image based sculpting for the fine details.

I’ve just finished a project with a number of landscapes sculpted in Modo and it’s really quite amazing when you think about it. Millions of polygons being displaced in real-time, right there in your viewport via a vector displacment map. You can paint on this geometry, freeze it, bake from it, render it, animated it, add proceedural coloring with the displacement values as an input, animate the displacment, etc.

It’s really quite unique in the 3D world right now and really gets you thinking where 3D is going to be a few years from now.

-Greg

Greg thanks for the explanations. Ingenious. With a bit of lateral thinking Luxology have carved out their own 3D niche in an overcrowded market (and in some respects leapfrogged the competition). As a Lightwave / ZBrush user Modo hasn’t seemed too essential but these sculpting developments are pretty hard to resist. And as Modo works so well with these apps guess it’s time to give in to temptation.

[CGTalk_Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.