"modo 201 is not the first 3D environment to incorporate modeling, painting and rendering," explains Brad Peebler, president and co-founder of Luxology. "However, modo is the first environment built from the ground up to integrate these workflow steps in a way that dramatically improves the ability of 3D designers to focus more on creating and less on process and repetitive steps."

• Advanced Modeling Technology – Users can simplify and optimize complex meshes with true mesh instancing. In addition, UV map creation with UV Unwrap and Solid Sketch allows rapid creation of base SDS meshes and Mesh Paint for painting geometric details on existing mesh surfaces.


• Integrated Painting Tools – The company added intuitive tool pipe painting tools, which allow hot swappable brushes, inks, nozzles and falloffs. modo 201 also features parametric ink, realtime bump map painting and new masking methods for precise control over texture application.


• Accelerated Rendering Technology – The company touts "incredibly" optimized global illumination, physically-based shading options for energy conservation, fresnel effect, anisotropy and subsurface scattering. modo 201 also offers true micropolygon displacements and gigapoly rendering.


• Workflow Boosts – New workflow optimizations improve the "fluid interactive experience" with "dramatic" OpenGL acceleration and advanced OpenGL light and shading including per pixel shading, multi-texturing and realtime bump mapping, as well as extended user control over input, including complete mouse and keyboard remapping.