Experienced Modo user Marc Hermitte sat down with the new Modo401 and compared it to the previous Modo302. He found that it’s slightly slower, simple scenes went from 21.25s to 22.75s in his tests, but the new features more than make up for this minimal impact to rendertimes.
Numerous new features have been added in the render department :
Better motion blur (Anti Aliasing up to 256 sample/pixel), stereoscopic rendering, shadow catcher shader, selective radiosity type (per surface) which allows hybrid global illumination scenes setup, volumetric lighting (with deep shadow map option to speed up the rendering of such effects), lights linking (inclusion / exclusion), new anisotropy mapping, blurry refractions and much more.
