We are pleased to announce our first update to MODO Steam Edition. This update is also sequenced with a MODO Steam Compatibility Kit hat will be added to all MODO 701 user accounts on http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/. It's important to note these are two separate things but related in subject matter.

There are two main distinguishing features in these updates.

• First we are adding the ability to export a (limited) OBJ file to MODO Steam Edition. This has the same limitations as the FBX exporter currently has.
  
• Second we are adding the ability for content that was created and saved in MODO Steam Edition to be loaded by MODO 701.

Meaning that MODO SE users can now create and sell items for more games in the Steam Workshops and load the unlimited .blx data into full MODO.


MODO Steam Edition 1.1 update includes following fixes and enhancements:

• New feature: OBJ export has been added to support exporting to additional Steam Games
  
• Having foreign locales installed stops Modo Steam Edition from launching – fixed
  
• Modo Steam Edition doesn't recognize russian language character sets in file names and paths – fixed
  
• Having additional files present in 'extra' directory causes failure on startup - fixed
  
• DOTA Content - Templar Assassin Joint is misshaped - fixed
  
• Texture Replicator > Local Projection does not do anything – fixed
  
• Exceeding max character limit when saving a brush preset crashes Modo Steam Edition – fixed
  
• Missing Script: Create Close Layout/ Absolute – fixed
  
• Updated DOTA2 heros list (dota2db.xml)

MODO Steam Compatibility Kit

• A kit for MODO 701 customers that enables the ability to load native MODO Steam Edition files (.blx)

Well that certainly turned out interesting!

Great job to everyone involved and congrats to Raben Wulf for winning our first ever contest here on STEAM!

Dispite quietness on my part we have been busy behind the scenes interviewing our contest winner and preparing a more formal announcement that will also be released shortly. Again great job everyone and practice up as we plan to do another contest here again soon.

Welcome to our first MODO Steam Edition Art Contest. Now that you have MODO Steam, let’s see if we can create some cool stuff for Necrophos in DOTA 2. What’s in it for you? We’ll be giving away a full commercial seat of MARI 2.5 to the contest winner! Yes, you read that right a full seat of MARI worth nearly $2,000 USD!

From now until January 31st, create items for Necrophos, like a crazy evil weapon, then upload images to the Artwork tab on the MODO Community Hub. Anyone with a Steam account can vote by clicking Thumbs Up on your image and the winner will be selected by the one with the most votes on January 31st - 1:00pm PST.

Upload the same beauty image that you would create for your DOTA 2 Workshop submission or an in-game shot of your spiffed-up Necrophos. Whatever you do, make it crazy cool and get those votes! We’ll have people on hand to answer any questions you may have about MODO Steam or the contest.

Best of luck! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.