Translucent polyamides in KeyShot 4

[fresker]

Great work.

[feher]

Great example of the new translucent materials in Keyshot 4.
Thanks for sharing.
It's a keeper...
Tim

[DriesV]

Thanks for all the kind words!

Here you have another shot. This time with a warm IES spot light from the top and a cold spherical area light in front of the 'ECO' mark.

Dries

[DriesV]

More of a studio approach for lighting this clip.
There is very little EV lighting in this scene (brightness 0,135). There are 4 area light panels in this scene.

Also a little animation of the original scene settings...

Dries

[Jnyzie]

VERY NICE !!!

[DriesV]

A few shots of another very specific clip.

Dries

[tsunami]

Superb!!!i love those material render!unfortunately i cant try because i have not ks4

[timb]

Do you have to change the material if you render it on a white table top?  Or will that material work well in a assembly rendering?

[DriesV]

Do you have to change the material if you render it on a white table top?  Or will that material work well in a assembly rendering?

The material is quite good as it is.
I applied it to a little assembly I grabbed from grabcad.
The white material is exactly the same as the the clips I posted earlier. No material settings changed. The assembly has the same scale as the clips (original size in mm).

note: I'm not to sure that these PA parts would actually work on a steam engine in real life...

Dries

[Chad Holton]

Very nice!

[DriesV]

Thanks!

Here's another shot with a bit more spunk.

Dries

[TpwUK]

Sweet

[schneich]

thats all very beautiful and nice, but translucency in ks4 has still bugs, and the new point and ies lights are worthless when it comes to shadows... i hope there will be an update soon....

i think you can only appreciate all that with a nice 16core machine ;-)


cheers


t.

[guest84672]

Can you be more specific about the "bugs" with the translucent material?

[DriesV]

thats all very beautiful and nice, but translucency in ks4 has still bugs, and the new point and ies lights are worthless when it comes to shadows... i hope there will be an update soon....

i think you can only appreciate all that with a nice 16core machine ;-)


cheers


t.

It's true that translucent materials take longer to resolve when rendering with area lights than rendering with just an HDRI. I thinks that's normal behavior.
Also, the images above were rendered on a 6 core machine (3930K) and still rendered pretty fast.

Dries