I too hoped they would have come out with some kind of fluid/smoke/fire simulation system, to pair with their particles and dynamics introduced in 701. Having the IPR visible while making those adjustments is there, but shaderball changes are usually real time. The nodal shader network was a big deal to Modo users and that's nice to see.but I didn't see any material/shader balls to show interactive updates as you set up your nodes. The Wrap, and Lattice Deformers was a nice step toward Modo being a legit Character Animation production toolset.but yeah.animations layers would be equally important, IMHO. It was more about refining what was already in Modo.
What I took from the release is that it wasn't the big left hook to the jaw of Ligthwave we all thought might be coming. I'm sure they'll learn from it and adjust accordingly, in the future. You like it, but what's NEW in 801? I think Brad did a pretty good job trying to do that, initially, but after his shpeal, it kind of meandered a bit. I watched the 801 Live presentation, and I would have preferred those guests to simply demonstrate the new features they really liked, rather than just talk about how they do stuff in Modo and basically keep saying how awesome it is. I think it is a really great app for only $1500! In general though, I was still impressed by the presentation and all of the features and improvements that have been added. I was also hoping for some kind of fluid/smoke simulation, but apparently that hasn't been added yet either. However, I did like how they added the new "traditional animation" workflow to the timeline (easy-to-add/edit breakdowns and inbetweens), and a really nice onion-skinning feature! Apparently Modo does not yet have that feature. I'm guessing that many other DCC apps have that as well. Maya has animation layers, and so does Lightwave, and Blender. Personally I was hoping for animation layers in Modo 801. Maybe they didn't like any of the questions that were asked there? Also the Foundry did not give much time for answering online questions, and only briefly answered two or three from somewhere else.Twitter perhaps? I'm not sure why the chat room was so empty for the Modo presentation.
In contrast, when I watched the Maya 2015 release presentation a few weeks ago, the chat was active and they answered all of my questions (some answered by the presenters, and some answered by other Autodesk employees who were in the chat room). It seemed like nobody was asking questions in the chat room, and nobody responded to any of my questions. I also watched the Modo presentation last night.
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