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Mechanical Color has released Tabby Cat, a simple but handy Modo Kit that changes the default Tab key behaviour so that Catmull-Clark subdivisions are used, entire polygon islands are either smoothed or unsmoothed, all component selection modes can be used, flipped polys are aligned and mixed unsmoothed/subdivided meshes fixed. The kit is free on Mechanical Color's website along with a number of other useful scripts.

Archviz artist Tomáš Sciskala has created MatPak, a collection of premium, high quality materials for Modo. Materials include carpets, wood floors, ceramic tiles, and many more. For more information on MatPak, you can visit The Foundry's website.

The Foundry's Shane Griffith announced that the online help for Modo 901 is available, and that they have been improved, making them more organized and searchable.
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The Foundry has announced the release of Modo 901. This latest release includes upgrades to physically based materials, dynamics and effects, better pipeline integration and much more. For the full details on Modo 901, you can visit The Foundry's website.

Murphy is a Modo kit being developed by Marc Albrecht that offers a free rigged human character based on the MakeHuman project's base mesh, rigged with the Automatic Character Setup kit and extended with morphs, deformers, etc. The latest version brings hair meshes, morph corrections, temporary eye textures, eyelashes, etc. Watch a video on YouTube and find out more on The Foundry's forum.

An advanced shader ball for Modo by Richard Yot, designed to test shaders under various conditions. Uberball comes with 12 different environments and 7 different mesh shapes. It can be downloaded for free. More on Modo's forum.

A creative rig by Andy Probst that uses hair to produce light streaks. Watch a sample video on Vimeo and find out more on Andy Probst's website.