I would like to ask if any of you has experience with creating in KS grooved patterns which we use for children furniture. I attached picture how it looks in real but I would like to make it in KS instead of taking the pictures. I was thinking of using KS labels somehow but I can not get this grooved effect. I tried to put vectors as labels and tried different options but it would not work. Maybe you could help me with your ideas ?
Quote from: MariuszTelega on June 29, 2020, 03:04:17 AM
I would like to ask if any of you has experience with creating in KS grooved patterns which we use for children furniture. I attached picture how it looks in real but I would like to make it in KS instead of taking the pictures. I was thinking of using KS labels somehow but I can not get this grooved effect. I tried to put vectors as labels and tried different options but it would not work. Maybe you could help me with your ideas ?
Maybe just try a bump map.
yes bump is ok but first quastion is: When I have flat MDF doors imorted to Keyshot how to create these images on the door ? I could do it in CAD because it is possible but I have 100 grooved patterns in our offer and it is not possible to create this each time in CAD to much time. Maybe there is another opiton - such as vectors which I could put on the doors in KS and somehow give them grooved effect. This gives me a headache how to create this images in KS ?
Do you have this patterns in vector files?
yes please see the files
hello Mariusz,
you can do this by using a displacement map!
your vector graphic needs to be treated a bit (in Photoshop i.e.) so that the artwork has a gradient to it, which would create that sort of rounded groove like shown in the picture. if you use the artwork, the way it currently is, it will create a squarish kind of groove. you also have to thicken the lines a bit.
if you have further question, you can also PM me ...
cheers
designgestalt
hello designgestalt - this looks just great. if this is not a problem for you I would like to ask you some quastions regarding this subject. 1/ how did you drag hase into KS. Did you drag it directlly into material graf and then used displacement map ? I am using this Pro9 verison not to long so some things are very new and you can not find it in youtube. I was trying to this by draging hase into KS as label before and I could see this hase as label. In your version I can find hase.png only on this graf material connected to displacement map ? Is it possible you would add photoshop file so I could see how you did with hase. Thanks again for this great help.
I found good KS webinar about displacement. I understand how it works now and it is really working great for this grooving elements. This was very good idea designgestalt and thanks again. I have over 100 of these patterns so I am getting to work.
I would be greatfull designgestalt if you could pass me this vector artwork file you have created. I have some effects but not as good as yours. Thanks.
hello Mariusz,
sorry for not coming back any earlier, I did not check the forum in the last couple of days...
unfortunately I did not keep the individual files, all I have is in the .ksp.
here is what I did:
I opened your pdf in Illustrator and copied one of the artworks (in this case "Hase") to a new sheet. I thickened the lines of the artwork and than copied the vector graphic to Photoshop. In Photoshop I feathered the artwork using a Blur filter (try the different Blur filters for different effects, I guess I used the Box Blur...)
one important thing to do is: invert the color in the end! your artwork needs to be white against a transparent background. you have to export the png with a transparent background.
I am not sure, if this is a bug or how the displacement works in KS, but an artwork black against transparent background does not work!
in KS I used the blured png of Hase as a displacement map, like you can see in the .ksp file.
you have to play with the blur effect in Photoshop to recive a satisfying result in KS, unfortunately you cannot blur the artwork in KS directly to recive that domed effect...
hope that helps ...!!
cheers
designgestalt
I used your idea and the effects are really good for my projects. Thanks and I put the rendering with displacement to show the effect.