modo 401 Technical Specifications

• Fast startup speed
• Preview renderer updates as you work
• High-quality OpenGL display (numerous shading modes)
• Preset Browser in modo provides access to wide array of pre-built content
• Input fields will support math operations like 5*2m
• Renderings begin instantly
• Undo/Redo enabled
• 3D navigation method can emulate other 3D programs (or be adjusted freely)
• Task-specific layouts provided for common operations (like painting)
• Help mode invokes explanations of any selected tool or command (often with video examples)
• Familiar industry paradigms used for common operations

• Commonality of commands across modo (paint tools use same system of Falloffs as modeling tools do)
• Cut / copy / paste functionality
• Intelligent object selection (including grow and shrink)
• Completely configurable viewports (size, function, visibility options and location)
• User configurable filmbacks
• Cursors indicate selection type
• Extensive system of Falloffs (spatial tool influence)
• Extensive system of Action Centers (center, axis for tool operation)
• Shadowcatcher feature simplifies placing 3D objects into existing photos
• Easily align-able workplane

• Complete hybrid polygon/SubD/Ngon modeler with extensive toolset for creating and modifying meshes at the vertex, edge and polygon level
• Support for retopology modeling (build over existing geometry).
• Instance replicators let you create render-time instances of meshes (like barnacles, leaves or welds) with trillion polygon detail.
• Add thickness to existing geometry.
• Flexible coordinate systems
• 3D primitives and text
• Symmetric modeling
• Pen tool supports structured drawing with snapping.
• Curve creation tools
• Model over background image.
• Snapping
• A scene can reference multiple files on disk.
• Sculpt or use traditional modeling tools at will (sculpting is not a mode).
• Modifier keys affect (e.g. reverse) the behavior of sculpting tools so you do not need to drop a sculpting tool to get opposite effect (Push vs. Pull for example).
• Mesh-based sculpting for roughing out forms.
• Image-based sculpting for adding fine surface detail.
• Unique vector displacement brush lets you create a brush from 3D geometry and sculpt with it (e.g. an ear).
• Fur can be sculpted.
• Utilize Profile Presets when modeling.
• Sketch tool lets you create lines, curves, straight lines, slices, or quad strips.

• There are fourteen 3D sculpting tools:
   
• Push
• Smooth
• Tangent Pinch
• Spin
• Move
• Carve
• Flatten
• Center pinch
• Fold
• Inflate
• Smudge
• Emboss
• Attenuate
• Mask

• Fast ray-tracer with physically-based shading options
• Preview renderer updates as scene changes are made and progressively renders to near final quality.
• Fast and threaded for up to 32 cores
• Time-enabled for rock solid motion blurs, stable reflections in animations.
• Fast global illumination
• Physical sky and sun
• Render high resolution images to disk that vastly exceed available memory.
• Network rendering on up to 50 workstations.
• Extensive lighting model (point, dome, area etc.)
• Flexible render outputs
• Steady GI solution for walk-through animations.
• IES (photometric) lights
• HDRI lighting
• Bake maps to single or multiple images
• Displacement rendering of micro-tessellated polygons at trillion polygon detail.

• Airbrush, Erasers, and numerous other brushes
• Real-Time Bump Map Painting
• Layer-based Shader Tree offers Photoshop-like control
• Paint layout includes a canvas, gallery-style row of images along the bottom, a color picker and brush preview pane
• Paint on any image in the Shader Tree
• Paint across multiple images and onto multiple UV maps
• Advanced procedural textures provided that require no UVs (e.g. cellular, noise)

• Roller brush facilitates continuous painting (e.g. in direction of cursor movement)
• Image ink lets you paint with existing images
• Image maps can be used to drive over 25 effects (e.g. displacement, bump, specular)
• Fur material lets you create tinsel, grass, hair or fur
• Paint on objects that lack UV’s

• Streamlined user interface for interactive UV editing
• UV projection to variety of shapes (e.g. cubic).
• Project from view option
• Unwrap tool with seal holes (e.g. eyes) option
• Relax tool
• Peeler tool
• Fit UV’s option

• Pinning
• Numerous UV alignment and expansion options
• Use same tools as rest of modo to move, scale etc.
• Move and sew
• Cut / copy / paste functionality
• Show UV overlaps option
• Show poly fill option

• Set keys on virtually any property.
• Graph editor
• Dope sheet (aka Trackview)
• Seconds, Frames, SMPTE and film code formats.
• modo reads animation data from other 3D applications in MDD format in order to render it.
• Can save animation in OpenGL viewport or Preview Renderer as a movie.
• Cut, copy, paste keys
• Animate while seeing real-time playback
• Vertex map deformers
• Camera and light targetting

• Morph targets (aka Blendshapes) are fully editable and can multiple morphs can drive the shape of the item at any given time.
• You can render an animation to a sequence of still images or to a movie file.
• COLLADA and FBX file support
• Channel linking and custom user channels
• Constraints and modifiers
• 2D Inverse Kinematics
• Dynamic parenting
• Ability to save and use rigs with text and shape controls.

• Toolpipe for customizing tools
• Key remapping support
• Script in Perl, LUA, Python

• File I/O SDK
• Headless modo for command line operation

Current modo 401 Version

• modo 401 Brochure (PDF)
• modo 401 Improvements (PDF)
• modo 401 Supported File Formats (PDF)
• modo 401 File I/O SDK (PDF)
• imageSynth 2

Previous modo Versions

• modo 302 Brochure Insert (PDF)
• modo 302 Improvements (PDF)
• modo 301 Brochure (PDF)
• modo 301 Improvements (PDF)
• modo 203 Improvements (PDF)