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Utility Viewports

Utility viewports serve a number of purposes in Modo, whether it's providing a way for you to define and select color schemes in the Color Picker, editing the color values of a gradient in the Gradient Editor, or simply displaying a rendered image when pressing the F9 key. These viewports are found throughout Modo, depending on the particular interface and utility you are looking at.

List and Info Viewports

Assembly Viewport

The Assembly viewport provides functionality for selection, locking, and 'pick walking' up and down a hierarchy with the keyboard arrow keys.

Color Picker Viewport

The Color Picker viewport is a dedicated window for editing colors and creating schemes for scenes, which can then be easily applied when surfacing, setting up lights, and any other color-related operation.

Display Viewport

The Display viewport offers the ability to control how individual items appear within a 3D Viewport, overriding the viewport style itself.

Gradient Editor

The Gradient Editor viewport offer the ability to control gradient textures in Modo.

Graph Editor

The Graph Editor viewport controls how the system interpolates key values.

Groups Viewport

The Groups viewport is a workflow streamlining tool, allowing the ability to easily control multiple items and/or channels within a scene. It also provides a number of functionalities to speed up common tasks, such as setting keyframes for complex hierarchies.

Preset Browser

The Preset Browser viewport is a visual reference to a library of pre-defined objects, surfaces, and settings, which are included with Modo.

Preview Viewport

The Preview viewport uses the Modo render engine in a progressive refinement mode that allows you to see all changes in a scene with a fully rendered image.

Render Display

The Render Display viewport provides a variety of useful options and feedback for working with the resulting rendered pixels for any Modo scene.

Tool Pipe

The Tool Pipe viewport allows the combination of the tools and tool modifiers, activating the proper functions automatically.

 

Assembly Viewport

Color Picker

Display Viewport

Gradient Editor

Graph Editor

Groups Viewport

Preset Browser

Creating Your Own Presets

Preview Viewport

Render Display

Tool Pipe