The Official Luxology modo Guide

Description

The Official Luxology modo Guide provides product designers, graphics artists, architects, and game developers with an A-Z tutorial for tapping into the phenomenal creativity of the modo 3D software. It offers a guide to the many tools of modo 201/202—explaining how they function and what they are capable of. However, this book serves as more than a simple extension of your modo manual. You won’t just read about the technical features of modo—you’ll dive right in and create your own projects as you progress through the book. Now you can harness the power of this amazing 3D software product!

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I - GETTING STARTED WITH MODO 201/202
Chapter 1: Interface Configurability
Chapter 2: Editors, Action Centers, and Work Planes
Chapter 3: Working with the Tools
Chapter 4: modo 201/202 Jump Start

PART II - CREATING AND BUILDING
Chapter 5: Basic Building Blocks
Chapter 6: Working with Mesh Items
Chapter 7: Shader Tree Fundamentals
Chapter 8: Inside the Shader Tree

PART III - WORKING PROJECTS
Chapter 9: Still Life
Chapter 10: Hard Surface Modeling
Chapter 11: Creating and Painting Textures
Chapter 12: Lighting and Rendering

PART IV - MORE ON LIGHTING AND RENDERING
Chapter 13: Rendering with Global Illumination
Chapter 14: Outputs

PART V - APPENDICES