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Topic - (01-20-2006) It's all about the little things.

BradPeebler

San Mateo
1978 posts

It's the little things that make modo modo. Refinement is the key. Even our round wheels are getting rounder. This week I wanted to take some time to review some additions we have made to existing tools to make things better. Several of our testers have said to me that it is these little things that makes 201 completely addictive. Of course, painting and rendering doesn't hurt either.

Some good news this week. We have officially integrated an intel Mac for our autobuild system. What this means is that everyday a Universal Binary of 201 is generated automatically. For the user this means that 201 will release as a Universal Binary. While this seems simple there was some work on our end. Our code, being modern, was a simple transition to the intel Mac. However, we do link to several 3rd party libraries. Things like OpenEXR, FlexLM, FreeImage and FBX. Since FreeImage and OpenEXR are open source we were able to port these to the intel Mac on our own. Flex and FBX were a bigger problem. For 201 initial release the intel Mac simply won't be able to have FBX (unless Alias gets with the program and moves it over soon). We have worked around the Flex issue on our own. Our new licensing scheme will seem no different to the user so it is still very user friendly.

We were aloso pleasantly surprised last week to see that Apple used modo 201 rendering as their premier benchmark for the intel Mac. I confirmed their results in their labs and we have double checked these results with our production iMac we got in house this week.

Of course our Windows version is hot as well. ;) It's good to be a completely modern code base.
Recently I went to AMD and ran a 64 bit native version of modo 201 on a Ferrari laptop with a 64 bit AMDchip and 64 bit Windows. I didn't perform scientific benchmarks but it sure screamed for a laptop. What's that you say? 64 bit native modo? Yep. No official word on release of the version but we are working on it.

Our testers have been busy too. Check out the latest from a couple testers.

This is a model that was done in 103 and ZBrush. When the artist got 201 they moved the mesh into modo for final rendering. I likes.

And the obligatory GI rendered interior. So nice.

Videos anyone? (I wanted to get you about 10 videos today showing some refinements but my family pulled up sick so I had to cut short the recording to play nurse. We'll pick up the rest next week.) Enjoy!

Can you feel the tension?

Falloff Handles

Mini Ticks

Multi-Falloff

Zoom Improvements

BP

Thank you Brad as usual

very cool!

-- love the zoom improvements
-- and multiple falloffs (and handles too)

thanks

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1/20/2006 - 1:38 PM

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Mylenium

Leipzig, Germany
1124 posts

Wow! Loving every bit of it. Short question re OpenEXR: Custom buffers support?

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Very nice Brad...love the images and the simple little things like middle mouse button zoom will really help speed workflow up.

Shweeet. ty. gimmie!!:P

1/20/2006 - 1:44 PM

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Son Kim

California
3687 posts

Brad, looking at the multi-falloff video the OGL interaction looks great, but can we sculpt with 1.5 million polygons interactively with the new advance OGL?

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1/20/2006 - 1:47 PM

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Ole

BUG, Norway
589 posts

Call me a freak, but I get chills every time the Q pops up in a new window. Must admit tho, still hungry for more. Very excited about the 64 bit version. Is there a significant speed increase compared to 32 bit? Hope your family gets well soon, Brad. My best wishes.

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Message edited by Ole on 1/20/2006 - 1:56 PM

South Africa - Carletonville
80 posts

I'm sitting at Heathrow waiting for my flight to board to South Africa, and just before its time to go, the Friday treat comes through!

Thanks Lux!

The cool strawberry man!!!

I didn't even know I NEEDED falloff handles till I saw the video. ;-D

1/20/2006 - 1:58 PM

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Wilgory

Pittsburgh | Cleveland | Charlotte
148 posts

I like this weeks update. Refinements are awesome and really well thought out. As for the MiniTicks, will we be able to shift select multiple inputs TranslateX TranslateY TranslateZ and perform these shift clicks and incremental clicks along with multiple numeric entries at once? I am glad that you guys made such great progress this week and I stil can't wait to get my hands on 201!!! Nice to see the finishing touches are falling into place, I speak for everyone when I say we are ready for 201.

Thanks
Greg

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1/20/2006 - 2:01 PM

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Gary Haus

Canandaigua, NY!
360 posts

Oh how I wish today ws the release day. I am SOOOOO drooling for this update(201 that is)! Thanks Brad and I hope your family gets better quickly.

Cheers,

Gary

“I was born ready.”

I am crying !! my gooooooooddddd!!!!!!

The middle-mouse button zoom looks mighty tasty!

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1/20/2006 - 2:09 PM

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Michael.

Plymouth, UK
667 posts

Very cool.

Will the mouse-wheel zoom be mappable to the touch-strips on Intuos tablets as well ?

Great vids, especially the Zoom improvements. You guys are obviously obsessed with workflow...

1/20/2006 - 2:15 PM

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Nigel Baker

Dublin, Ireland.
610 posts

I am on it, Thanks Brad and all the team.
Any news to when the update is actually available, even a small hint...

Keep Posting

1/20/2006 - 2:17 PM

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Son Kim

California
3687 posts

Quote from Nigel Baker :
I am on it, Thanks Brad and all the team.
Any news to when the update is actually available, even a small hint...

Keep Posting

When they improve the OGL even more so we can sculpt interactively on a 1.5 million polygon mesh :P. Patients...

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1/20/2006 - 2:29 PM

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Neil Hayes

Brighton, UK.
1669 posts

Quote from Wilgory :
I like this weeks update. Refinements are awesome and really well thought out. As for the MiniTicks, will we be able to shift select multiple inputs TranslateX TranslateY TranslateZ and perform these shift clicks and incremental clicks along with multiple numeric entries at once?

that sounds like a good idea.

Two additional things for minsliders

- how about right-click resets to zero

- control click will jump to nearest integer for the currently displayed unit.

keep up the good work,

-neil

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1/20/2006 - 2:32 PM

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