William Alexander Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 With the improvements for Modo going beyond just a modeling application being announced at Sigraph.... Maybe it's time? I'll be honest though, mostly Cause I'm having a blast using it..... LOL WDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 can you post links to their website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alexander Posted August 1, 2005 Author Share Posted August 1, 2005 www.luxology.com and a supplemental site for scripts and more tuts ect.... www.Vertexmonkey.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radii Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Luxology announced version 201 of modo a few days ago. While the modeling tools are pretty cool, it is the rendering engine that looks extremely promising. It seems, according to their Siggraph presentation, to do GI in a fraction of the time it takes others ( vray, brazil etc. ) and is able to render complexe scenes at very high resolutions. The shaders look equaly impressive. How modo would handle as a standalone package for arch viz ( does not import dwg for example and has very limited line/spline tools ), I'm not sure, but it would be a super speedy renderer, if nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alexander Posted August 15, 2005 Author Share Posted August 15, 2005 radii, Well we'll see about the renderer. Personally I wasn't very impressed with Modo for ArchViz, more of a subD modeler. The more I used it for other things...the more it made sense for ArchViz hard surface work. Yes importing dwg would be great. Depends upon how much 'other' stuff you model and how you feel about ADT's, for example, methods of creating faces from the design content-wall windows. It's a powerful app, you just have to invest a little time to get benefit from it. I still use Max...just using modo much more because it is 10-15% out right faster to use for many tasks, from my experience to this point. WDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 I looked through their features, looks like they do have some interesting things - integrating painting for example - but for arch viz I'd end up mostly using procedural textures anyway. But yeah, the painting and layering does look pretty cool. But the improvements to their render engine that they're advertising don't make their renderer better than the other ones - displacement, buckets, several kinds of lights, baking, lens distortion and depth of field aren't anything new, and the speed improvement they're talking about has to do with using irradiance cache instead of Monte Carlo - big deal, I already get that in VRay Free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinice Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Sorry for asking this before trying out the software myself... as usual a bit too busy. From what I read, Modo does modeling and rendering. Without an animation module, how easy it is to generate the animations in the other package and importing it into Modo for rendering. Has anybody tried this. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alexander Posted August 16, 2005 Author Share Posted August 16, 2005 big deal, I already get that in VRay Free. I paid for a renderer in Max-MR. Still will use it too The UVunwrapping tools are looking to be the real improvement upon the modeling cpapbilities. The renderer really just makes it a stand alone application. ThinIce, Don't think this round of development has any animition capabilities in Modo. But Modo exports very well to many other apps, Max XSI and really well into C4D. Luxology is really developing Modo for and from input of users, the actual artists. Heading for a full blown CG application... we all will be hearing much more from Modo and Luxology. WDA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martywalker Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 It's about time for a modo forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 Yes, we'll need one pretty soon. Let's hear from Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 i agree, we're getting there fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Is anyone else? Jeff will not open a new forum unless he sees there are enough people interested. Keep posting!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I thought I post these links here so people can see what Arch-Viz Modo users are doing with Modo 201: http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=7527&page=0 http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=7627 This one is not Arch-Viz but I think it is one of the best in the gallery so far: http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=7638 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I'm very interested in giving it a try at least. If for no other reason than at $895 it seems very affordable for what it offers... Especially for any students out there who have a 3.0 GPA or better... $99!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P. Ham Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 It's about time for a modo forum. Yes, I agree! The more eyes on modo the better! I think modo is more than capable for ArchViz....especially with Neil Hayes scripts. I've been using it since 102 for modeling and based on the image from Rockmed on the Lux forum it's quite the renderer as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adehus Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 And another vote for a Modo forum... there seems to be a strong archviz userbase on Luxology's forum, but it'd be nice to integrate them with the archviz community here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 It's on my list to add on the weekend. Stay tuned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Great! Thanks Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Alexander Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 It's on my list to add on the weekend. Stay tuned ....kewl... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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