MoonRay for Modo 0.4.1

Native Windows experimental release for Modo 16.1v9. Download the kit and the windows-runtime ZIPs and follow INSTALLATION.md. The content ZIP is optional: it adds MoonRay's ten example scenes to the asset library. All three unpack to a MoonRayForModo folder; merge them into one. The kit finds its bundled runtime folder by itself, so no paths or environment variables need setting.

0.4.1 needs its own runtime ZIP: install the kit and the runtime together, not the kit over the 0.4 runtime. The MoonLightIPR engine in it changed with the toon material.

The full list of changes, with pictures, is in What's new in 0.4 and 0.4.1.

New since 0.4

• MoonRay's toon material starts as a toon material: its diffuse ramp and toon highlight are on as soon as it is added. Either can still be set back in its form.
• MoonLightIPR draws the toon material, ramp and highlight.
• Ramps are edited with the mouse: drag a stop's handle, click the ramp to add one, double-click a handle for its color, right-click to remove it.
• A material's ramp shows in the preview as you edit it, with MoonLightIPR and RT On. OK keeps the change; Cancel drops it.
• The scene importer can import into a new scene, and has a Close button.
• Color management follows Modo's system preferences, and what you choose in MoonRay's render settings is remembered for new scenes and the next time Modo opens.
• MoonRay LS shows and renders the beauty alone.

Known limits

As in 0.4. Also: the live ramp preview needs MoonLightIPR with RT On, and is for ramps opened from a material's form; ramps opened in the graph editor or on light filters show after OK. In MoonLightIPR a toon highlight is drawn without its stretch and its indirect reflections. Open issues are on the issue tracker.

What was checked

The packaged kit and runtime ZIPs were unpacked into an empty folder and checked there with tools/check_release_package.py. The content ZIP was checked for its layout and integrity, not installed from. Each change was tried in an isolated Modo 16.1v9 on one machine (RTX 3090) while it was built; the project's unit tests pass. No clean-machine install was tested.