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    This document provides an overview and recommendations for KeyShot material and rendering settings. It covers three main topics: (1) understanding ray bounces and global illumination settings for realistic lighting, (2) harnessing the flexibility of KeyShot materials like measured metals, cloudy plastics, and metallic paint, and (3) determining appropriate sample settings to balance render quality and noise. The document recommends starting with the "Product" lighting preset, experimenting with new material options, increasing material samples before render samples, and using maximum time or samples as initial quality settings.

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    This document provides an overview and recommendations for KeyShot material and rendering settings. It covers three main topics: (1) understanding ray bounces and global illumination settings for realistic lighting, (2) harnessing the flexibility of KeyShot materials like measured metals, cloudy plastics, and metallic paint, and (3) determining appropriate sample settings to balance render quality and noise. The document recommends starting with the "Product" lighting preset, experimenting with new material options, increasing material samples before render samples, and using maximum time or samples as initial quality settings.

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    This document provides an overview and recommendations for KeyShot material and rendering settings. It covers three main topics: (1) understanding ray bounces and global illumination settings for realistic lighting, (2) harnessing the flexibility of KeyShot materials like measured metals, cloudy plastics, and metallic paint, and (3) determining appropriate sample settings to balance render quality and noise. The document recommends starting with the "Product" lighting preset, experimenting with new material options, increasing material samples before render samples, and using maximum time or samples as initial quality settings.

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    Everything About Material & Render

    Settings
    June 28, 2018

    Dries Vervoort
    Before we begin…
    - This session will be recorded
    - Slideshow PDF will be available
    - KSPs will be available
    - Computer: MacBook Pro (Mid 2015), Intel
    Core i7-4980HQ CPU (4 Cores, 8 Threads,
    2.80 GHz), 16 GB RAM, macOS High Sierra
    - Performance: 65 FPS (camera scene)
    - If you have questions, just ask
    Contents
    - Introduction
    - Part I – To Bounce, or not to Bounce
    - Part II – Harnessing Material flexibility
    - Part III – What the Sample?
    - Conclusion
    - Q&A
    Part I – To Bounce, or not to Bounce
    Understanding Ray Bounces and Global Illumination
    Common issues and challenges

    Wrong Lighting settings for the materials

    No Global Illumination Too few Ray Bounces


    Model: “Scooter Cezeta - Engine housing” by xero, GrabCAD
    Solutions in KeyShot

    Ray Bounces and Global Illumination in Lighting tab

    Ray Bounces:
    - Increase for highly reflective or refractive surfaces

    Global Illumination Bounces:


    - Increase for bright diffuse surfaces that are occluded
    - At least 1 bounce for light to pass pass through glass

    The “Product” Lighting Preset will work 90% of the time


    Ray Bounces

    More Ray Bounces for bright transparent materials

    6 Ray Bounces 14 Ray Bounces


    Ray Bounces

    Less Ray Bounces for dark transparent materials

    6 Ray Bounces 14 Ray Bounces


    Global Illumination Bounces

    More Global Illumination Bounces for bright diffuse materials

    0 Global Illumination Bounces 1 Global Illumination Bounce


    Global Illumination Bounces

    4 Bounces
    Global Illumination Bounces

    10 Bounces
    Global Illumination Bounces

    Less Global Illumination Bounces for dark diffuse materials

    0 Global Illumination Bounces 1 Global Illumination Bounce


    Hands-on
    Part II – Harnessing Material flexibility
    Mastering Materials for a wide range of uses
    Common issues and challenges

    Blown out metals

    Model: “Chip clip” by David Oldroyd, GrabCAD


    Common issues and challenges

    Dull-looking anodised coatings


    Common issues and challenges

    Dull-looking transparent plastics


    Solutions in KeyShot

    - Measured Metals with Anodized option


    - Cloudy Plastic with Transparency Distance, Cloudiness and Scattering
    - Metallic Paint with fine control over clear-coat
    - Options for Toon, Solid Glass etc.
    Solutions in KeyShot

    Measured Metals for accurate color shift and coatings


    Measured Metal

    Titanium preset
    Measured Metal

    Green anodized Titanium


    Measured Metal

    Yellow anodized Titanium


    Solutions in KeyShot

    Cloudy Plastic for a wide range of plastics


    Cloudy Plastic

    Low Cloudiness
    Cloudy Plastic

    High Cloudiness
    Cloudy Plastic

    Gradient Cloudiness
    Cloudy Plastic

    Uniform Scattering
    Cloudy Plastic

    Backward Scattering
    Cloudy Plastic

    Forward Scattering
    Solutions in KeyShot

    Metallic Paint with Clear-coat color and bump


    Metallic Paint

    White Clear-coat
    Metallic Paint

    Colored Clear-coat
    Solutions in KeyShot

    Solid Glass and Dielectric for transparent plastics


    Solutions in KeyShot

    Toon for illustrations and documentation


    Toon

    Colored Shadow
    Toon

    Textured Shadow
    Toon

    Gradient Titanium Label


    Hands-on
    Part III – What the Sample?
    Making sense of Samples and Render Quality
    Common issues and challenges

    Noisy rough metals and noisy shadow areas


    Common issues and challenges

    Noisy rough metals and noisy shadow areas


    Solutions in KeyShot

    - Material versus Render Samples


    - Rule of thumb: increase Material samples first

    Things that require more Render Samples:


    - Some materials: Ground Plane, Measured Metals
    - Shadows
    - Depth of Field
    - Motion Blur

    Render quality:
    - Maximum Samples or Time: great general-purpose settings
    - Custom Control can help avoid noise in shadows
    - Interior Mode has less noise than Product Mode

    Things to avoid:
    - Cranking up all settings and sliders
    - Starting with high settings
    Hands-on
    Conclusion
    Summary and recommendations

    - “Product” Lighting Preset as a starting point


    - Dare to experiment
    - Explore the new material options for Metal, Cloudy Plastic etc.
    - Increase Material Samples before Render Samples
    - Maximum Time or Samples as a starting point
    - Interior Mode can be great for product shots too
    Questions?

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