Modo Vector Displacement and FF

I have no clue why.....but I wanted to inquire about "Modo"??? Dilla mentioned it before.....and I had no idea what he was talking about.....

Luxology's Modo
It's a polygon modeller, and has extensive painting and Vector displacement tools. I just can't figure out what it wonts for the Vector stuff, and how I'd get that out of FF

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tigerAspect wrote: I'm having trouble getting Vector information out of FF that Modo interprets correctly. Any hints?

That's because FF does not output vector displacement maps.

However, bump maps rendered in FF (at 16bit or 32bit) are perfectly usable as displacement maps in modo, and normal maps work fine as well when their Effect type is set to 'Normal' in the Shader Tree.

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Crapadilla wrote: However, bump maps rendered in FF (at 16bit or 32bit) are perfectly usable as displacement maps in modo, and normal maps work fine as well when their Effect type is set to 'Normal' in the Shader Tree.

Yep, what 'dilla says. Load your FF 'bump' map as the displacement image. Load the FF normal map as 'normal'.

Also, if you're using a bump map to displace the polygons of your object, I've found it works better (in zbrush anyway) to keep the maps at a power-of-2 resolution, like 512x512 or 1024x1024, not 600x600. I think it's because of subdivision modeling... if it's at power of 2, then the pixels line up better with the verticies.

Would you guys recommend Modo? I've been hearing such great buzz about modo, I've been thinking about picking it up. Downloaded the demo, but haven't really done much with it yet.

Modo is, as they say, the shiznit, (or "shizzy" if you will). The polygon tools are second to none.
Ben, you absolutely must try Modo 302, the sculpting tools are phenomenal, with some really crazy useful stuff related to Vector displacement, like unwrapping geometry into displacement, or mixing multiple displacement images at different resolutions, all really good stuff.