Modo Tutorials for a Maya user

Vii · Jun 2013

Hi guys,

I've been looking into modo and am probably going to take the time to learn it. Could be really beneficial to my modelling.

What's throwing me off is that the tutorials I find are either overly complex and I have no idea what they're doing because I don't know the hotkeys, or are slow and dragged out.

If any of you came from another 3D package and started learning modo, can you link any tutorials that were a large help to you?

The other thing I can't seem to find is game character modelling tutorials for it.

Cheers

Farfarer · Jun 2013

For hot keys, any command or button that has a hotkey, it'll show it in the menu or on the button (hover over buttons to see alt commands (shift/alt/ctrl modifiers are standard... i.e. shift + cube button creates a new unit cube in a new layer).

Customisation is a big part of modo, you can re-arrange and re-assign pretty much any interface and hotkey. Henning Sanden recently put together a good intro to that over here; http://henningsanden.com/2013/03/31/how-to-optimize-modo-for-faster-modeling/

Some of these are pretty old (modo 30x era) but they're a good introduction to some cool stuff in modo - especially things like action centres.
http://www.sabpro.com/modo/

Game character modelling tutorials will be the same for any app, really. If it's a good tutorial, it'll be teaching you good program-agnostic methods for character modelling. I don't think you'll find any specific to modo.

Vii · Jun 2013

Hey, thanks! I'll give em a go.

fattkid · Jun 2013

There's decent tutorials here and there, but the best way to learn modo is to just sit down and spend a day/couple afternoons/weekend - just plowing through the manual.

Not necessarily the whole manual, but the sections that you want to lern about - One by one, learning where each tool is, what it does, it's options etc. Once you know those things you can pretty easily create/recreate your current modeling workflow and transition over.

AFter that - I like these 2 Youtube channels -

http://www.youtube.com/user/dominiekdr/videos?flow=grid&view=1

http://www.youtube.com/user/stammpe2/videos

melviso · Jun 2013

Yeah,the documentation is very straight forward and helpful.This is the problem with Blender,no offline documentation u can use .

Also u can change the default viewport navigation in Modo to be like Maya.Go to System> Preferences > Input > Remapping then choosing Navigation: Maya.

Modo Tutorials for a Maya user

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