Layers to parts, materials to submeshes
The structure you built in Modo is the structure you paint. Hidden layers stay hidden.
Modo LXO + MechaPaint
Modo scenes, read natively. Layers, materials, UVs, and the textures in the shader tree arrive ready to paint.
WHY MECHAPAINT
Modo work opens as Modo made it
The .lxo reader is built into MechaPaint, so Modo artists skip the FBX round trip. Each mesh layer becomes a part, each material tag becomes a paintable submesh, UV maps come along, and the color textures wired in the shader tree are found on disk and placed.
Textures from the shader tree
Image maps linked to each material's diffuse channel are located and applied, so the model shows up looking like itself.
Quads kept
Polygons keep their sides, so an OBJ export of your repainted Modo model is still a clean quad mesh.
Export anywhere
FBX, GLB, OBJ, or STL with PBR texture sets, or a .blend when you have Blender installed.
PIPELINE
Three steps
01
Open the .lxo
Drag it on MechaPaint.
02
Paint
Layers, masks, symmetry, the clone stamp, Mecha Lines, decals, and the full PBR channel set, painted straight on the model.
03
Export
Textures per material, or the whole painted model as FBX or GLB.
A painter that speaks Modo.
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