In this new tip tutorial coming from CG Cookie for Modo Cookie, we’ll take a look at Sub surface Scattering inside Modo. We’ll see how to create a simple skin shader for a goblin creature, using diffuse color, custom procedural map to control skin roughness and bump effect. We’ll see how to create a simple but efficient lighting setup using two point lights and one area light source, to render it using global illumination too. We’ll see how to use all the sub surface scattering parameters to understand how it can be used to obtain a fast skin shader.

In this new tip tutorial we’ll see how we can use Luminous properties to create custom shaped lights. We’ll use Luminous Amount parameter and Luminous Color properties that can be found inside Material Editor, to make a self illuminated toroid that will be our main light source inside the scene. We’ll see how to obtain the best final look using Global Illumination algorithm too. We’ll make some little test using noise procedural maps to control the amount of lighting emitted by different mesh surface area and/or different color area.

In this Modo video tutorial we’ll see how we can create an underwater environment just using simple basic Modo features. In the 1st part
we’ll model sea level, basic ground and a procedural rock, then we’ll move on to light and shade it to obtain 1st final render.

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In this Modo Video tutorial we’ll see how to create a complete natural environment in Modo. We’ll see how to model it using some basic modeling features, then we’ll prepare the basic elevation model using Modo Sculpting features.

We’ll add a simple river mesh and then we’ll use procedural shaders and complex Modo shader layering system to create a procedural rock shader and a basic water material. We’ll use adaptive microtriangle displacement and bump mapping to achieve final rock look. Lighting will be based on internal daylight/skylight system to use global illumination to achieve a more natural result.

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In this new Modo Video tip tutorial we’ll start talking about lighting inside Modo. Our 1st exercise is about a “Studio lighting” setup, useful for industrial design product rendering, or commercial product photo-realistic rendering. It will be done using simple shaders and 2 or 3 area lights, and we’ll see how to create different image look just changing intensity and colors on light sources.

With this new beginner video Modo tutorial we’ll start to take a loot at how we can create a very basic interior environment and render it trying to obtain a realistic result. In Part 1 we’ll create the basic room and we’ll prepare the daylight illumination setup with some basic shaders, then we’ll continue in Part 2 modeling the furniture and in Part 3 tweaking the illumination and working on night/day different illumination setup.

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In this new Modo video tutorial we’ll continue working in the Shader Tree module to create a new natural shader to render ground/terrain surfaces. We’ll take a look at diffuse color properties, displacement and bump channel just using nested procedural maps.

In this new Modo Video tutorial we’ll take a look on how we have to proceed to create a simple ice shader, and then how we can modelin a very fast way a basic iceberg 3d mesh, and the apply the ice shader and put it inside the old sea scene we created in a previous tutorial.

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In this Modo video tutorial we’ll take a look at the motion blur capabilities in Modo 401. We’ll check how to add motion blur effect in animated scenes, how to control it and which types of motion are supported.

In this new modo video tip tutorial we’ll take a look at the Preview View port to understand how it can help us to check in realtime the final rendering look of our scene.