modo 302 brings updates and a whole host of enhancements

With modo 302, a free maintenance release, Luxology is hoping to deliver the next evolution to its registered modo 301 users.

The update can be downloaded from Luxology's website and users will find a host of bug fixes and dozens of new features to modo's rendering, modelling and animation. Just a few of those include:

Rendering

• Renderer works with up to 32 cores
• New Bloom effect
• Seven additional render buffers
• New control over color saturation in global illumination
• Light Materials now can get accurate glows by setting “Correlated Color Temperature” (measured in Kelvins)

Modelling

• New Flex tool streamlines posing of tentacles, fingers and antennae or similar organic mesh edits
• Flexible and automatic tool positioning via a new Selection Border action center and the new Selection Falloff
• Interpolated strokes make sculpting and painting even smoother
• New Join Edge, Join Edge Average and Split Edge options

Animation

• Totally new Track View editor for arranging the duration and sequencing of animated channels
• Track control added to the existing Graph Editor
• Camera and light tracking now supported
  

In fact, there are almost too many to mention here so users should take time to look at the features PDF on the Luxology website.

If you’d like any more information on this, or any other software, then please feel free to contact Graeme our Software Manager.

[Images - Top: Brucelee42/modo, Top Right: modo modelling, Bottom Right: modo animation]