The Modo image gallery has a fluid simulation, produced with Blender! No, Luxology is not supporting Blender, but an artist called Eric Tobiason produced a fluid simulation with Blender and Modo for materials and rendering.
If you want to check out the Fluid Simulation, visit the Modo Gallery and look for the image produced by Eric Tobiason. Click in the image to see a description of the scene, where he mentions that Blender was used to produce the fluid.
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some people on their forum talk about using blender for animating and exporting mdd to modo 301 (301 just got released! :) i am currently downloading...). brad peebler from luxology also mentioned blender in his modcast.
http://www.luxology.com/gallery/video/
they also have a well known character in the gallery.
Well, well, another thing to be proud of being a Blenderhead...NOT for showing effects, modelling, animations or simulations created on this masterpiece on other apps´ galleries... BUT because it give us more and more reasons that tell us we made the right decision in switching to this great 3D suit, they (MODO makers)barely can praise themselves in showing more value(or capabilities) than Blender does...And I really doubt they can keep the pace up to Blender´s great communities and development geniuses... yes I´m proud of all of you(Bheads)
Eonmach... I totaly agree.
I am still learning blender and have only used it 4 month but I have already used it at my adverticement agency.
They are impressed what a open source program can do!!! All of them where saying – why dont you learn something
usefull like maya, 3dmax and so on.... I will show them :o)
//R
No offense but that image doesn't have much originality. It looks like straight out of a tutorial. And the oil looks too watery to me...
WoW! That's a hike in price,But the buyer still get a CD backup thats not bad.
I had been looking a Modo's image gallery with envy at the quality of the internal renders and was considering switching from Blender to Modo almost for that reason alone.
Do you think I would be completely insane to do so?
Did I say something blasphemous?
Come on Blenderheads, you gotta admit that Modo's renders look rather good. Do you think they're better than Blender's? Would it be a mistake to switch based on that reason alone? Anyone here that's used both care to comment?
Jon,
It's easy to be impressed when looking at the conglomerate work of many artists. Have you looked at a blender gallery recently?
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/archive/february-2007/
I think Blender can keep up if you use it fully. Sure, that may mean taking advantage of an external (free) rendering engine from time to time (indigo or YafRay). But I didn't see anything there that makes me want to spend $900 and be locked into paying per upgrade.
i use both, blender and modo and i think they complement each other nicely, especially now that you can render animation in 301.
i think you can achieve similar quality with blender and yafray but modo's renderer is extremely fast and a lot easier to use and tune.
(i originally come from maya and never could get used to blender's quad based modelling. that's the main reason why i got into modo. if there already had been the fully functional bmesh maybe i wouldn't have bought modo. i think modo isn't that expensive with the special deals they sometimes have and with the current dollar/euro rate.)
i second horace. what's the point in seeing competition everywhere.
i support open source and love blender + yafray but also use modo+ zbrush.
it's all about options : each app has its own strength and fits nicely in a workflow.
modo301 price point is fair enough if you do any commercial work :
there is no arguing when time is money and meeting client's deadlines a must.
it's either done right before tomorrow... or someone else has the job.
modo realtime preview + gi rendering is fast and looks good straight out of the box.
no endless tweakings and re-rendering to get it right.
Thanks for the replies guys.
Joe,
I'm familiar with the Blender gallery and there's some awesome work there. (Shame it's not been updated lately) It just seemed that Modo's gallery images were of a consistently higher standard. But, as you implied, a lot depends on users making the best and fullest use of a programs tools. Maybe Modo simply has more professionals using it who also submit work for its gallery.
Blender is the first and only 3D prog I've used. And only for a few months. It could well be that it's my skills that need improving, not Blenders features. And maybe switching to Modo wouldn't automatically improve the quality of a my final images.
Horace,
Blender's quad poly modelling is all I know. I still struggle with it occasionally but I have no experience of any other modelling methods. I think I had read somewhere that quad modelling was the holy grail anyway. I thought Modo was a quad modeller too.
r3615,
It's interesting that in repsonse to my render quality concerns all three of you mention using Yafray with Blender. I really need a one stop 3D prog for commercial work, with easy renders that "look good straight out of the box" so I can focus on my designs and reduce button tweaking and render tests to a minimum. That's why Modo was tempting me.
I would be sad to say goodbye to Blender. You never forget your first.
Hmmm, decisions, decisions.
Interesting that this one was chosen... it's one of my first tests using Blender's fluid simulation, and I've done more interesting things with it since then. I really enjoy Blender, and I had a great time meeting the developers when I was in San Diego for Siggraph 2007.
nice image, looks like coke :)
Now, Well I´m no stubborn, foolish know-it-all, I respect everyones´s right to choose what application they may need to get the job done, I don´t really care for "competition" as someone stated, in fact I also use Maya, but the thing I can´t stand about an application´s web site, is getting cocky about a fluid simulation which (as far as I know) they don´t support yet, it may be misleading to potential buyers. Even if the user who did it, writes about the programs used...they (MODO makers)should put the blender´s site... Am I wrong?
Yeah... you are wrong Eonmach, sorry to say. Only for the practical reason—I put the image on their site, they thought it looked good or interesting enough to move to the gallery. They have nothing to do with blender's site. I suppose I could post it on Blender's site. But I don't see why Luxology should.
CasperN, yeah, it looks a little like coke, a little like oil, a little like a lot of stuff. I used Blender's OIL preset for the viscosity, monkeyed around with some texture settings using the additive transparency (this is what Lux is showing off, the additive transparency that their renderer has), and came up with something passable and moved on. Decided to call it oil.
No hard feelings pal, just commenting, I really like that blender is better known as a everyday tool for everyone; and you, like me enjoy this software, so keep it this way, don´t be sorry to say anything, we are on the same side man...