Hi all fellows.
Modo been released and I would like to know if somebody has tried it.
Did you like the program?
What opportunities does it offer to compare with Zbrush. Is there any tool
in a way of Zsphere to ease the process of building meshesā¦
Anatom
I didnāt buy it yet, but I had the chance to play around with it a few days.
My Pro and Cons list:
+) The great UI is very customizable and setting up your own custom UIs is really easy.
+) It has some really cool deformation tools. Plus, nearly every transform tool can also be used with one of the plenty falloffs.
+) It comes with some nice pdfs and, if you donāt have time to read, some training tutorials.
-) Itās slow. And I didnāt try it on a Geforce Card workstation.Compared to Silo, itās extremely slow. Hope Lux will speed it up with coming updates.
-) Thatās a personal preference: I hate how the layer system works. I love the Mirai/Wings approach, the geometry graph - Thatās a great implementation. But the Modo one is the same as in lightwave and I donāt like that āI erase an object but itās actually still in my sceneā thing. Also, there are no options to select or reference my objects from the layer graph.
-) There are still a hell lot of tools missing. No Connect, a few tools feel pretty strange, Wings and Silo offer a lot more here.
-) UV Editing
-) You canāt edit the mouse buttons: You have 2 navigation presets (default and Maya) but that just isnāt enough. Iām always using a kinda Mirai style for navigation, MMB to rotate, etc. And I hate having different navigation controls in different programs - Thatās a really disappointing one for me!
-) No Smart Highlighting/Component Pre Selection. Using the Tweak Tool is a Trial and Error thing.
-) You often lose your Symmetry while modeling.
Well, thatās everything I can think of now. Maybe I missed some things while testing (didnāt have a lotta time), but I was a little disappointed. I think itās a great start and Iām sure it will be a great modeler in the future, but I wouldnāt use it in itās current state, cause there are a lot of better modelers out there.
I hope Luxology reads all the critique they got very carefully and surprises with a fantastic Modo 1.5 version.
Very much thanks, Thomas.
I will sleep better now.
Luck,
Anatom.
Just saw that I didnāt answer your questions. Well, here we go:
What opportunities does it offer to compare with Zbrush:
Itās not comparable to ZBrush, cause itās ājustā a traditional modeler like Silo, Wings, whatever.
Is there any tol in a way of Zsphere to ease the process of building meshesā¦
You can still use cubes to block out the base forms and build up on that. Well, I think Modo is a great start and I guess every Lightwave user will sooner or later use it, but everyone who works with XSI, Silo, Wings, whatever should really try before buy it, I mean, itās not in the same price league as Siloā¦
I have Modo, and itās not slow on a Mac which is what itās demoād on every time Iāve seen it. What I can say is itās potentially going to be a fantastic modeler.
It needs to have some tools added if your a Maya user, because the modeling workflow is totally inferior to Maya at itās default configuration, and it needs some tools added on the Maya side, and the LW side of the spectrums. (I canāt speak for the LW guys, but thatās what I hear)
I could make it work great right along side of Maya, but you shouldnāt need to do that much customization just to do what you thought it would do right from the start.
Iām really looking forward to the revision, and I hope itās free because I am not even using it.
I can second Thomas Mahler.
I found the fall off tools really appealing.
I found the layers abysmal, ugh!
It is slow.
On the whole they have some great ideas, but it just doesnāt feel right to model in. If you know what I mean. A lot of the default settings are really goofy to work with.
Definately try it out before you buy it!
Wings is a lot more fun, fast, and free!
Modo is best modeler 
easy enough for beginners & powerful enough for pro.