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Technical discussions => Materials => Topic started by: andrew on March 13, 2012, 04:06:44 AM

Title: Wood material
Post by: andrew on March 13, 2012, 04:06:44 AM
Thinking to purchase keyshot, if..

Can wood material be made so it has end grain? instead of wrapping the map around all sides of object.

Andrew
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 13, 2012, 05:57:30 AM
Is there any software at all that can do this ??
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: caden2010 on March 13, 2012, 07:14:27 AM
You need to apply 2 different textures. One for the main surface and the other for the end grain. There needs to be 2 different colours on the model imported into KeyShot.
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: jjeconomaki on March 13, 2012, 10:01:35 AM
It is entirely possible to do wood;

http://keyshot.com/forum/index.php/topic,1826.msg6804.html#msg6804

This involved three separate scans but really easy.

Hope this helps.

John
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: andrew on March 13, 2012, 12:51:38 PM
Sold!
I was hoping for a miracle, can sell my chisels now.

Thanks John
Andrew
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: jjeconomaki on March 13, 2012, 04:42:06 PM
Andrew-

Are you a tool maker?

-John
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 14, 2012, 02:37:47 AM
Just wondering ... is there a software that can auto-map wood textures ?  That should be fun.
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: jjeconomaki on March 14, 2012, 09:48:25 AM
What we really need are procedural woods--all one would have to do is indicate grain direction and it would map beautifully without the hassles of positioning faces.

AND, a little birdie told me that such a solution is in someone's bag of tricks at the home office...

John

Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 15, 2012, 08:48:41 AM
http://www.klaasnienhuis.nl/WordPress/2011/09/3d-wood-texture-by-jerry-ylilammi-berconmaps/

ok, so it DOES exist ... that's interesting :D
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: m2tts on March 15, 2012, 09:39:12 AM
That is wild!
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: KeyShot on March 15, 2012, 02:12:28 PM
We do have procedural wood and many other procedural materials implemented in the KeyShot engine. To expose them we mainly need to figure out a good user interface. It will happen in the not-too-distant future.
Title: Re: Wood material
Post by: PhilippeV8 on March 16, 2012, 02:45:55 AM
WHOODT ! :p  That's excelent news :)