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Hypatia Callisto has been using my testbed for making sculpies with Luxology’s Modo. She’s found some minor errors in my gradients and corrected them. She’s been kind enough to share her work with the rest of us, so here it is: http://www.rabbitroo.com/SL/testbedtorusfinalHC01.lxo.
EDIT 4/16/08: Also available as a .zip file:
http://www.rabbitroo.com/SL/testbedtorusfinalHC01.lxo.zip
and here ALT: testbedtorusfinalhc01lxo
Ryder Spearmann has been doing some sculpture work with the my SL Testbed for making sculpies in modo. After some investigation he found that the gradients I created are “eased” (which is the automatic form of a gradient in Modo). This causes distortion at the outer edges of the sculpie, so I’m pleased to present the improved testbed. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.rabbitroo.com/SL/SLtest11.lxo
Here’s what the gradients used to look like–note the curves:
Here’s what the new, straight line graident:
I’ve revised my MDD Baking to allow you to bake the Rotate, Scale, and Translate tracks into the MDD file or to bake just deformations.
Get it here:
http://www.rabbitroo.com/C4D/MDDIO_050b.zip
It can be installed directly over the previous versions.
I’ve been making some updates to my original testbed to bake SL’s sculpie objects in Modo. This new testbed will do a much better job of getting the “poles” of the sculpie sphere in the center. Get it here:
http://www.rabbitroo.com/SL/SLtest7.lxo
Here’s an example cube (in wireframe) to show the sculpie-sphere now deformed into a cube-like shape.
With the announcement of Modo301 last month and its support for rendering animations which have been stored in Motion Designer/PointOven format (known as MDD), there has been lots of excitement about the idea of transferring animation to Modo for rendering. While MDD converters are around on Windows-based platforms (XSI and Messiah for example), they are few and far between on Macs except for Lightwave. To remedy this, I’ve created a little MDD Importer/Exporter plugin for Maxon Computer’s excellent Cinema4D system. This cross platform plugin can be downloaded from my site:
http://www.rabbitroo.com/C4D/MDDIO_040b.zip
It’s currently in Beta since I was not able to test against Modo301 (my request for a beta unit to test against was not responded to by Luxology), however it has been tested against both LW 9.2 and XSI on a PC and I am pleased to report it appears to work. Also, one of the Modo 301 testers has tried a couple examples produced by this plugin, indicating that it should work on Modo301 when available.
A special thanks goes out to my Beta testers (you know who you are)!