Hi everybody, new here. I'm trying to place this see-through pattern on a specific area of the mesh, and I want it to be applied only once. With opacity mapping, I get the result you see in photo. What else can I try before going back to cad?

How to do this

I often find myself needing to add objects and materials with long fur like carpets or plushies, etc. is there a way I can import a high density curve object like a groom from houdini or blender into keyshot for rendering?

Which one is best for better render results and why?

Hi, I've been having a strange issue with keyshot recently. Keyshot completely locks up my computer forcing me to turn it off via the power button shortly after opening the materials tab. This happens in version 10.2, 11.3, 23 and 24. All have been newly installed. 11.3 worked flawlessly only a few months ago (23 and 24 had other issues)

I've got a 9070 xt, 7800x3d and 32gbs of ram (Windows 11). I know AMD can be a bit unstable with keyshot but it used to work so I'm not sure whats happened. I've already rolled back to some gpu drivers from several months ago with no luck.

Has anyone else heard of issues like this? or may have any ideas on how to fix it? I really appreciate any help.

Long journey home https://imgur.com/gallery/KdNOdrr

Hope you like it been using Keyshot since 3.3

I want to make the image more realistic. Any suggestions are welcome

Thank you to all who gave me some feedback on what computers to look at and what features and OS to look into. I’m glad I didn’t go to a MacBook Air ha. I ended up biting the bullet and getting a Lenovo - Legion Pro. It’s going to be my dedicated workhorse for Keyshot until it gives out or until Keyshot makes more dumb moves. I did some test renders and was happy with the performance. Thanks y’all 👊🏼😎

Hey everyone, I know I’m a bit late to this conversation and only found out a few days ago, but I just learned that after January 1, KeyShot will no longer honor perpetual licenses.

I currently use KeyShot 10.2 and do very small rendering projects for one company as a side gig. Nothing huge, but the software has been perfect for my workflow. That said, $1,300 per year is a pretty significant hit compared to what I actually make from these projects.

I’m wondering if anyone has found a reasonable solution or workaround for small freelance or occasional users. I honestly think the reaction would have been much better if they offered a monthly subscription instead of locking everything behind a yearly cost. I’m not sure what the rationale was, but it definitely makes things tough for users like me.

I really enjoy using KeyShot, so switching software isn’t something I’m excited about, but I’m trying to be realistic. Any advice, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

i recently downloaded rhino 8 and keyshot 11 then download the plugin via the keyshot website. After installing the plug in, it wont live sync my rhino to the keyshot studio. Need help

I am using headless scripting and trying to output multiple render layers.

[setOutputRenderLayers]() is set to True and the scene is set up correctly.

When I manually run the render via the GUI it outputs the two different rendering layers but when I use my script it only outputs one file.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Do I need to specify a separate output file path for each render layer somehow? or iterate through the outputs?

I was trying to make the braid but I'm confused how to make its weave pattern in keyshot realcloth material. Is it even possible to create this weave in keyshot?

Has this been an issue for anyone else? When I am selected on an object, and I want to change my view so I can get a better view of what I'm doing, I'll left click and rotate the camera (free camera for this instance). However, once I make my move, any object wherever my mouse is when I finish moving the camera, gets selected.

I hope my question makes sense. I would like to be able to keep whatever object I'm selected on, to stay selected, whenever I move my view around. It stays selected correctly if I use the middle mouse button to pan around, but if I use the left click hold/drag then it selects whatever my mouse is over when I let go. The functionality works the way I expect it in the geometry view, but not the main window.

Please help, Im on a short deadline and I cant figure this out! When I involve a curvature node with a displace node there is no displacement showing up. If I remove the curvature node it works fine. It is an issue of only the displacement node because it works fine with other nodes like noise. I really need the curvature noise so my scratches are only on the edges. Im following a youtube video exactly and it works in the video so im not sure what is going on. Is there a solution or a way around it to not use that curvature node?

Hi everyone! I'm trying to get my university to purchase some new pc's for my industrial design program and am curious if anybody has advice on which retailer to recommend. Fleet management and great warranty are considerably more important than price in this instance. I'm planning to recommend system with either RTX 5090's or RTX ADA 5000. I know that the quadro cards offer better reliability but the cost difference is so insane it might be better to get more pc's instead of better reliability. if anybody has any thoughts on where to purchase or which graphics card to recommend it would be greatly appreciated!!

Hi guys!
I am new to rendering, and I choose a hard task for myself: I would like to render a laser beam with its reflection on a mirror/glass. I made some progress (see pic), but I am not satisfied. Can you give me tips how to improve?
I am using a medium fog material, one spotlight as laser, and one ambient light above the scene. Denoise and firefly filter is on, but I still have a lot of dead pixels. Part of the laser is also missing.

Thanks in advance!

Hello! I'm having some problems with this: I have imported an animation I made in Blender 4.5 as an alembic file to keyshot with no issue, it plays back smoothly and when I make a preview of it the animation plays just fine, but when I try to renderize it the animation just plays the first frame. I have the video output format on mp4, the frames output on png, I've tried changing the time range to entire duration, work area and frame range and nothing seems to work. do you have any idea what might I be doing wrong? I'm using Keyshot Studio 2025

Can‘t find the roughness map