Modo releases.

Complex scenes can be a challenge to visualize at high quality. In Modo 14.1 the Advanced Viewport has been optimized for faster Shader Tree and Shader Group processing for better performance when working in complex models and environments.

Curve Sweep has a new mode, allowing vertices of a mesh to be swept along a curve using Curve Sweep. Point mode brings exciting new versatility to Curve Sweep for making vertices into curves.

Falloffs are a powerful and flexible part of Modo’s workflow and you can now use them to control Polygon Bevel. Use all your favorite falloffs with Polygon Bevel Shift and Inset.

Making simple operations smarter adds speed and agility to the modeling process. Polygon Make can now create a new quad polygon when only two edges are selected.

Unwrap and Relax is a powerful uber tool that makes quick work of complex UV tasks and is now available as a procedural Mesh Operation.

GPU Ray Tracing on qualified NVIDIA hardware has been upgraded to use OptiX 7.

mPath is now significantly faster to render your ray traced scenes with NVIDIA OptiX 7. This update to mPath also adds support for ray tracing two-point polygons in OptiX—useful for rendering hair and fur.

Simplicity can remove barriers and allow focus on the artwork at hand. Environment Importance Sampling (EIS) is now automated when rendering with mPath, based on whether any image maps are affecting the environment. Just another parameter not to worry about.

The UV Pack and UV Fit mesh ops now have new attributes to set the gaps size by pixel for 14.1.

Sometimes you need to adjust your joints after Inverse Kinematics has been applied. Disable IK enables you to do just that by tweaking joint placement even after IK is set up. Both Full Body and Planar IK can now be disabled in Setup mode and commands have been added to update the Rest Pose of both types of IK chains.

Changes are inevitable. This is always true when being directed. Add point allows you to revise existing details on your model by reducing the number of loops along a curve, providing a streamlined method of updating your models when those inevitable changes are thrown your way.

Edge Chamfer is the in-progress replacement for our edge bevel tools. In 14.0 we’ve taken further steps towards feature completion by adding falloff support for chamfer operations. Users can now exploit this modifier on our brand new tool.

Profiles are an essential part of Modo’s modeling arsenal. Allowing you to quickly produce detailed forms along geometry loops, chamfer profiles brings us one step closer to a feature complete chamfer tool.

Every step in a modeling workflow can feel like a commitment. This is particularly true with edge bevels. Unbevel allows you to remove a bevel applied earlier, giving you the flexibility to iterate at late stages of a model or maybe just get home a little earlier.

If an application lacks workflow consistency then the workflow is broken. Element Move Raycast allows you to select polygons while in wireframe mode, exactly as you would in shaded modes, letting artists further leverage muscle memory that is dependent on consistent behavior.

Modo is known for its innovative rapid modeling workflows. This innovation continues with Face Slide by giving you the ability to slide points over faces with easy-to-identify handles, furthering Modo’s modeling dominance.

Modo’s falloffs offered artists an easy way to customize their tools. By adding a world option, falloffs have been expanded to allow for consistent behavior across multiple mesh layers, fulfilling artist expectations.

Modo has a tremendous library of tools that can streamline your asset creation workflows. However, when a series of tools are frequently used in a workflow, they should become one tool. Unwrap and Relax, ignore edge selection and eliminating auto activate for relax streamlines common UV workflows letting you produce complex and beautiful maps with ease.

We all spend enough time every day cleaning up. If you already have LPE’s for lights in your scene and you run the command to create them again, Modo no longer duplicates existing render outputs, eliminating tedious cleanup.

AxF or Appearance Exchange format is quickly becoming an industry standard for materials in 3D design applications. mPath, the new pathtrace renderer in Modo, now supports AxF allowing users to leverage these high quality material presets in Foundry’s newest cutting-edge renderer.

Modo’s trackball rotation offers a unique navigation style vs. other 3d applications; it can be very powerful for orbiting singular objects but jarring for new users. Trackball rotation is now turned off by default, making it easier for new users to transition. However, we still encourage you to spend a day with trackball.

Language is an important part of software design. We’ve renamed the Vortex Deformer to Twist, making its behavior easier to interpret.

Modo’s selection tools are extraordinary and we are constantly evolving in this area. Select Partial provides an incremental improvement to our selection tools, giving artists more control over how components are selected in the viewport.