Modo 10 Series

The Foundry announced the release of the [Modo 10 Series] with a small change to how updates work. [Today’s Modcast] explains the old way and the new way. The old way had the usual x01 release with the bulk of features being in the initial drop and the remaining drops being purely service packs and bug fixes. The new way will have all the drops in the series having both features and bug fixes. It seems like they are testing a slightly different business model before bringing out the popular subscription model.

Also in the forums, Brian Vowles has been chronicling a neat video project with his kids.
[Robot Attack!]

2.5D Painting

I’ve been doing a lot of 2.5D painting with Modo and I want to know how to set the camera defaults. Since every time I open an object for painting, I need to setup an orthographic camera aimed at (-45, 135, 0).

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It would also be nice to make the uv process smarter about the painted area. If we scale the uvs, we just need to [bake] another texture.

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