Slightly Transparent Matt Rubber - How?

[eon_designs]

Hello

New to the forum and new to Keyshot (been using Alias to render)

On the whole, Keyshot is fantastic, fast and does a superb job of most materials. However, I am really struggling with Transparent Matt materials - ones to simulate silicone rubber etc.

Looking through the forum people have posted some good examples, however they all seem to be more like jelly mould and have a high amount of reflection. Plastic food containers or worse they look like acrylic.

How can you create a simple matt finish that has a limited degree of transparency? In Alias it was easy - get your material all setup and then just reduce the transparency slider - unfortunately Keyshot does not have this.

Someone please help - Thanks.

[Chad Holton]

Welcome!
Do you have a sample image of what material you'd like to match? First though, try playing with your specular value.. make it a darker.

[eon_designs]

Hello

This is the type of material. Matt, dull slightly transparent rubber or silicone type material

Thanks.

[KeyShot]

Perhaps, this blog story will help?

http://keyshot.com/creating-perfect-frosted-glass-keyshot/2012/

You can reduce the transparency (change the specular transmission color) of the advanced material.

[PhilippeV8]

I had to think of this thread:

http://keyshot.com/forum/index.php/topic,3861.0.html

[Chad Holton]

Here's what I ended up with based on your reference pictures. You may want to fine-tune it a bit. It's a variation of PhilippeV8's from here: http://keyshot.com/forum/index.php/topic,4801.msg20622.html#msg20622 (BTW - Nice one PhilippeV8 )

[PhilippeV8]

Ah yes ... there it is ! ... I couldn't find it earlyer, was looking for the same topic, but failed and didn't want to spend more time searching.  Thnx !

[eon_designs]

Wow - thanks

Excellent Forum - the last links worked perfectly.

Thanks. :-)

[jhiker]

Here's another stab at it..

[eon_designs]

Wow. Perfect.

Thanks for sharing the material file

Excellent.