Modo 401

[Mike Bailey]

If you want to see the previews.

http://www.luxology.com/modo/401.introduction/

[93i]

upgrade preorder has started... already got mine

[Mike Bailey]

Is out.

http://www.luxology.com/

[93i]

took me about 15 seconds to crash it the first time

they copied a few features from silo, which made me always doing the modelling stuff in silo, maybe i will use modo for much more now.

[pauland]

they copied a few features from silo, which made me always doing the modelling stuff in silo

That's not what I would expect to hear about a product whose main selling point has been as a modeller!

[93i]

no, modo's selling point is not beeing a modeller (maybe it was, years ago), its great in texture painting, displacement painting, rendering and even animation. silo on the other hand is just a modeller - ok, and displacement painting, but not anywhere near on modos capabilities.

[Giovanni]

Still another crash-prone release!

I'm lucky I'm not the one who shells out money, just the one who lurk someone else's workstation...

[Mike Bailey]

Giovanni

Still another crash-prone release!

I don't seem to have that problem, maybe there's a loose screw on that workstation. I once had a loose motherboard electrical grounding screw cause my PC to crash intermittently. I blamed it on some software I had installed just before the problem started. I have also been able to crash various programs I've used over the years all by myself, fortunately I don't give up so easily and I have been rather successful a finding out what I did wrong so that I could correct my mistakes.

Last I heard you were testing Hexagon. Hows that going?

I got Hexagon from Daz 3D a while back for $1.00

[Mike Bailey]

Andy Browns demonstration of Modo 401 at London and Paris events.
http://vimeo.com/5209465

A nice peek inside of Modo 401

[Giovanni]

Strange enough on my PC Hexagon is quite stable.
I started modeling my house (original, uh?) and in the meantime I'm looking a round for a good and cheap renderer solution.
I trialed DAZ Studio but don't like at all the interface and workflow.
Maybe an old version of Carrara, or Kerkythea could make the job.
Any suggestion on a good stand-alone render software?