Tortoise Shell material (4.1)

[NDenekamp]

Another experiment.

This was a nice one to try and recreate. There's many varieties of this type of material, but I like the dense coloured one, with this kind of flame like stirred look, more than the blotted one.

The issue with this one is it only really looks good at this scale. If I scale it up it loses definition, if I scale it down it gets a little too 'veiny' instead of flame-y.


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[richardfunnell]

Wow, that is really fantastic!! I've tried to get the same material but the results weren't nearly as good

Would you mind sharing your material or material settings? I would love to see how you made it!

[guest84672]

Awesome. Another "wood"? Wonder how this looks on a pair of glasses.

[NDenekamp]

Richard, I created this material as part of beta testing the new procedural textures coming in KeyShot 4.1. So unfortunately I can't share this material as it wont work in the current release.

Thomas, I was wondering the same! so I got a Ray Ban off grabcad, and had a go at rending it with this material.  I made this one with a stretched marble colour map on dielectric material.

Next up, bakelite?

[guest84672]

Oh man - this is awesome. Please share the material if you don't mind.

[NDenekamp]

Sure!

When applying you may (very probably) have to adjust the scale and position of the marbling and possibly the colour density of the material to get it to look right.

[edwardo]

Wow! 100% convincing. I kind of assumed that the forthcoming procedural materials would be a great time saver for parts in the background of scenes etc. But damn, I was wrong, this is truly photo real even in a macro shot! amazing!

[PhilippeV8]

This should work great on a comb as well   Lovely !

[TpwUK]

And is by magic .... http://grabcad.com/library/comb-2 voil

[Zy0n]

did you meant like this ?

[TpwUK]

Yeah, just like that - lol - needs better shadows, but yeah, just like that!

Martin

[guest84672]

Great!

[PhilippeV8]

Yeah, better shadows and engraved gold-painted text ... that takes me back to my early childhood 

[PhilippeV8]

This is one of the best materials I've seen.  It's spot on.  All thanks to procedural textures, but none the less ... it is perfect.

[TpwUK]

@PhilippeV8 ... What did the text say though, I can't remember the brand, but I remember the comb so well!?

Martin