Someone in the Modo community released a Studio Lighting Kit (SLIK) for Modo, I've never used it, but I believe it does a lot of what you describe. It includes models of all the equipment (see image) so they'll show up in reflections if you want them to. You can also set up all the equipment as you would in a studio, then bake a HDR environment map of the lights, hide them, and use the HDR for illumination.