In response to the needs of artists and designers, Chaos Group and Foundry company reached a strategic cooperation. After that, Chaos Group announced that their world's best rendering engines V-Ray formally begins to support Foundry's Modo, Nuke and Katana 3 featured products. And V-Ray provides the original rendering solution for Modo, which is a good news for companies or studios that have already used Modo.

V-Ray for Modo is a powerful, professional and completely interactive lighting, shading, compositing and rendering plugin for Modo. With it, you can choose between multi-core CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering capabilities in order to get complete creative control and fast results. For Modo artists and designers, it enables you to create award-winning designs and visual effects efficiently.

The rendering functions of V-Ray for Modo are seamlessly integrated into the native workflow of Modo. This means that it increases the high-end of production ability of one of the best 3D modeling tool in the world. If some studios are currently in use of Modo or considering to add it into their existing toolset, V-Ray for Modo will provide more opportunities for their rendering platform.

Key Features

Feature List
Rendering
  • Powerful CPU rendering
  • Incredibly fast GPU rendering
  • Distributed rendering
  • V-Ray Denoiser
Lighting
  • Global Illumination
  • Accurate lights
Shading
  • Physical materials
  • Unique shaders
  • Ray traced rounded corners
  • Triplanar mapping
Cameras
  • Photoreal cameras
  • Virtual Reality
Geometry
  • Proxy objects
  • V-Ray scene exchange
  • Hair & fur
  • V-Ray Clipper
  • Volume rendering
Compositing
  • Render elements
  • V-Ray Frame Buffer

Supported Platforms

  • Modo 701 (SP5), 801 (SP2 or higher), 901, 902, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11, 12 and higher

System Requirements

  • Windows 7+, 64-bit only
  • Mac OS X 10.9+ (Mavericks and higher)

Official Demo Video

Edition Statement

AppNee provides the V-Ray (Next) for Modo multilingual full installers and unlocked files (cgauth.dll, libcgauth.dylib, etc.) for Windows 64-bit and Mac.

Installation Notes

V-Ray Next for Modo 9-13:
  1. Download and install V-Ray for Modo (there is no need to install the License Server.
  2. Copy the unlocked file 'vray_v41201_modo_fix.dll' to the following path and overwrite:
    • C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Modo x64\vraysl\plugins )
  3. Done
for V-Ray for Modo v3.52.01+ on Windows:
  1. Download and install V-Ray for Modo
  2. Copy the unlocked file (cgauth.dll) to "C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Modo x64\vray4modo\[Modo Version]\" and overwrite
  3. Done
for V-Ray for Modo v3.52.01+ on Mac:
  1. Mount the setup file and install
  2. Copy the unlocked file (libcgauth.dylib) to the following two folders:
    • Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Modo_x64/vraysl/
    • Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Modo_x64/vraysl/vray_qt/
  3. Done
for V-Ray for Modo v3.40.02 on Windows:
  1. Download and install
  2. Copy the unlocked file (cgauth.dll) to "C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Modo x64\vray4modo\1011" and overwrite
  3. Done, enjoy!

Related Links

Download URLs

Support Version Download Size
V-Ray 3 for Modo
Modo 7/8/9/10 v3.40.02 reserved 204 MB
Modo 7/8/9/10/11 v3.52.01 reserved 336 MB | 112 MB
Modo 7/8/9/10/11/12 v3.60.01 reserved 371 MB | 144 MB
V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo 9/10/11/12/13 v4.12.01 396 MB
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