[Modo]Modo 301 sculpting timelaps

[edgework]

Originally Posted by W???

Open empty scene, press control+sphere and press "D" 5 times. If your system will not hang up, set the strength to 1% and try to sculpt. On 2.66 Dual Core modo 103 gives about one lamp per second.
On the same system with the same sphere (exported & imported via obj) Hexagon works in real time and gives smooth result even in dots mode. Without additional smoothing. In free hand mode you will see blue line only if you will move your mouse very, very fast.
That's the matter of fact and not some sweet dreams caused by watching good picture.

So modo 301 must be 100 times faster than 103 to be close to Hex, not even ZBR.

You seem to be focusing only on actual modifications to the mesh. Those five subD levels would become very cumbersome if you tried to sculpt all your fine detail at that level. As I recall with Hex (not an authority, I admit, but I did try it's displacement and sculpting out a bit) you also needed a high level of subD (5 or 6) to get nicely resolved skin pores, etc. Hex had problems with meshes that dense as well.

Modo makes it easy to bake those hi-res details into a displacement map, apply it to a low-poly version of your model and retain all your sculpts. At which point, you can continue painting into your displacement map for the fine detail. The limitation is image resolution, not mesh density. But you aren't working on millions and millions of polys to get down to the nitty-gritty, which is the point. And, as with Hex, you also can toss in a bump map for the really fine detail, though modo makes the process of layering image maps a lot simpler. (And it renders bump maps far more effectively than anything I found with Cararra).

I'm not a modo apostle, I want to be convinced that it will live up to expectations. And I acknowledge the strengths that Hex brought to the table. But assessments based on 103 ignore what is actually there.

[Wася]

The question was how good is modo as compared to Hex & Zbr. The only way I know to compare A and B is to do something both A and B can do.
All I know about Zbr is its ability to handle horrible number of polygons in a real time. Not "equivalents of" but real polys. Not only on videos, but on my computer also. I know also all those horribly dense meshes can be exported to displacement maps, and they were invented before modo came to stage.
All I know about modo 301 is it's cool on videos. But I also saw how smooth and fast is sculpt tool in modo 103 (on video came with modo 103 help).
For now I can only pray that all this 301 videos were made not on 8-way Apple Pro.