I used Modo as a modeler for quite some time before completely switching
to SI. Just got tired of swapping from one app to another and now I'm
doing most of the modeling in SI as well.
I think for most modeling and UV tasks Modo is much easier to use, the
only thing that annoys me every time I model something in Modo is that
with the Tweak tool, or Element move tool as it's called in Modo, you
have to pick a vertex with pixel accuracy. It doesn't snap to the
nearest component as with the Tweak tool in SI.
But then the tweak tool in SI gets on my nerves when it also affects
hidden geometry, and I can't limit it's effect to only selected
components, for that I have to use the move point tool. And don't get me
started on symmetry in SI, it's almost useless.
The selection tools in Modo are much better then in SI I think, at least
one can choose raycast or no raycast for every selection tool. In Soft
you only get that with the default rectangular selection tool. It took
me quite some time not to get irritated by that anymore. But it still
gets me every now and then when I'm trying to select vertices while rigging.
- Ronald
On 4/8/2013 14:15, Octavian Ureche wrote:
This is actually interesting. Modo seems to resemble a lynch
movie...you either love it or hate it.
For example, i hate it's selection tools, and the whole workflow seems
alien to me. I tried and tried to get the hang of it, but just as i
never got along with lightwave,
i don't know if i'll ever get along with modo. The weird thing is, i
want to like it...but i just can't seem to get to that point.
And it's been like that since the days of 101. Still, i have used it
on projects with great success, but only for it's beautiful render engine.
Everything else seems backwards to me.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Juhani Karlsson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I love Modos selection tools - I think you just need to get used
to them. Its neat for modelling and uvs.
On 8 April 2013 14:56, Szabolcs Matefy <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
A friend of mine has access to Modo 701, and I was lucky
enough to have a look on it until the trial is out. It has
very nice things, however, I still hate the selection, and
found it quite clumsy compared to Softimage…However, the
sculpting toolset is awesome…UV I haven’t tried it yet, next
time I visit his studio, I’ll take a look at it too. But to a
seasoned Softimage user Modo is a complete another world, and
what I felt, that the number of tools and possibilities were
rather frustrating then supporting. But of course if I could
spend more time on it, I could get used to it.
Cheers
Szabolcs
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Of *Martin yara
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*To:* [email protected]
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*Subject:* Re: Softimage 2014
Is not the same thing. We need something to preserve unique
frozeb uvs. Maya and Max can do it. When you have assets from
other packages, fbx data or old frozen files a custom freeze
button doesn't help at all.
I use gator to preserve uvs all the time. Not perfect, but
quite useful. And if the object isnt very high poly you can
keep the op alive and it works pretty well in real time.
boundaries are always a problem but Maya's preserve uv isn't
perfect either and doesn't work all he time. It just give you
a warning message when the it can't do it (Gator doesn't.)
M.Yara
On 2013/04/04, at 9:37, Ahmidou Lyazidi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
And by the way, as I said earlier, if you make a custom
freeze button that will only freeze the stack and not the
projection,
the factory swim feature will preserve the UVs.
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Director | TD | CG artist
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2013/4/4 Ahmidou Lyazidi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sorry I mixed it up with the pin feature...
Anyway what would be a fair price for a preserve UV feature ?
2013/4/4 Matt Lind <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
No it isnt. We just had that discussion.
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