Pipeline Kit for Modo

BabylonDreams has released Pipeline,  a suite of tools for working with massive CAD scenes, optimising the shading and rendering workflow and much more. The list of tools is included below

Modelling & Rigging

• Re-Route Instances (switch out the source item of one or many instances)
• De-Instance (turns any instances to meshes but leaves other items types alone)
• Instance Source Center Adjust (works on fresh CAD imports and allows moving the center of the source item without the instances flying off into space)
• Sync Instanced Hierarchies (makes sure your instanced group has the same contents as the source group)
• Select by item size or volume.
• Parent Selected to Group

Animation

• Record GL (a better more powerful GL recording then the default modo one)
• Reduce Keys
• Jitter Animation (Baked)
• Jitter Animation (Modifier)
• Bake Camera Hierarchy and Export as FBX (for those times when you need a simple camera with animation curves no matter how complex the camera hierarchy)
• Transfer Animation per Item
• Transfer Animation Hierarchy Workflow (transfer the animation of complete rig assets by saving the animation to disk and then re-applying it to other scenes or updated rig assets)

Shading

• Fix Orphans (fixes orphaned and hence invisible materials in the Shader Tree)
• Collect All TextureLocators
• Delete Unused TextureLocators
• Share TextureLocators between Textures
• Create Per Material RenderOutputs (great for creating alpha or color masks for compositing)
• Texture Effects Chooser
• Texture Color Space Chooser
• Convert Texture to Gradient Control
• Convert Texture to Color Correction Control
• BBox Instance Toggle (turn selected or all scene instances to a bounding box display for speed or back to normal again at the click of a button)
• BBox Display Threshold (permanent version of the dynamic feature that comes with modo 12.2)

Rendering

• Combine Render Pass Groups
• Create per Material RenderOutputs
• Update Render Paths (create render paths based on scene name and project location)
• Open Selected renderOutput’s Folder (opens an Explorer/Finder window at the output path)
• Adjust Overscan (one button overscan adjustments)
• Headless Batch Creator (create all files necessary for batch rendering and if requested start a background render)

Scripting

• Version Up Scene 
• Version Up Scene with Comment
• Clear Log 

V-Ray Features.

• Convert Texture to V-Ray Triplanar
• Convert Texture to V-Ray Color Correction
• Rename V-Ray Proxies based on Proxy Filename
• Replace Hierarchy’s Meshes with vrmeshes

The price of the kit starts at €14.40 for an indie license,  €24.00 for a freelance license and  €72 for companies of 2 – 10 people. Larger companies pay  €240 per license. 

Find out more on BabylonDreams website.