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 introduce Replicator feature. Replicators are a really useful kind of duplicate. In Modo we can use to create thousand and thousand duplicates and attach it to a mesh. All the rendering feature are supported by Replicators, but we can’t manipulate it directly as instances. In our test scene we’ll merge a mesh coming from Modo Content, and we’ll use it to create a lot of replicas and then to render it using reflection, physically based sunlight and skylight and global illumination to see how it is fast.

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 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.

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 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.

In this modo tip video tutorial we’ll continue to talk about the Shader Tree feature. This time we’ll take a look at basic differences between bump and displacement, then we see how to use a procedural map to create some interesting displacement effects, and we’ll take a deeper look at noise procedural map with all its parameters.

In this Tip tutorial we’ll start to talk about the Shader Tree features. We’ll take a look on how we have to proceed to create a material and then how to create different layers to add textures as diffuse color and bump map. We’ll talk in general about layers, blend mode, image map properties.

In this Modo video tutorial we will play around with some glass shader settings. Covering colored and frosted glass shaders.

In this tip modo video tutorial we’ll start to introduce the Snapping features inside Modo. We’ll talk about how to use it so align a mesh to other elements inside the scene, or how to use it during mesh modeling to snap to the grip, and we’ll talk in general about this feature to go more in depth on how to use it in a more advanced way in a future
tutorial.