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KeyShot 3D Rendering

By : Jei Lee Jo
Book Image

KeyShot 3D Rendering

By: Jei Lee Jo

Overview of this book

Creating realistic images has been always a meticulous process where setting up the stage is a long and complicated task. KeyShot has simplified this process by allowing us to have a greater amount of control and flexibility in all aspects of the rendering procedure."KeyShot 3D Rendering" provides a series of exercises with a detailed explanation of each part of the pipeline, from importing our model, to texturing, lighting, and rendering. In addition, the book covers in detail how to use all the necessary parameters inside KeyShot and also explains alternative methods to showcase your work."KeyShot 3D Rendering" starts with covering all the basic principles and fundamentals of how to work and navigate in KeyShot. Throughout the book, there will be exercises that will guide and help you to complete the chapter's assignment. Also there will be an explanation of all the terms and parameters used in the exercises.You will learn how to use HDRIs (High Dynamic Range Images) as the primary source for lighting and also how to incorporate backplate images into a scene. You will learn how to create your own materials, textures, and labels. Lastly this book covers camera functions, real-time settings to improve the workflow of your assignments, and also rendering properties.The exercises in the book will provide you with all the tools necessary to bring your models to life and set up your own environment. You will learn how to adjust overall properties accordingly to maximize rendering output.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Rendering in KeyShot


After our scene gets set up, the rendering process is the last stage of our workflow inside KeyShot. It is important to understand how the Render window's properties work, since changing the values of the attributes found in this menu to high or low values can impact the results of our renders significantly.

To open the Render menu, press the Render (teapot) icon from the viewport and the Render options window will open with five submenus, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Those submenus are described in the following sections.

Output menu

The Output menu controls the overall final settings of the image file that will undergo the rendering process. Some of the features are as follows:

  • Format: This lets us choose the type of file we want to output. Currently KeyShot can output the formats such as EXR, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and TIFF 32 Bit.

  • Resolution: This allows us to input the final resolution of our image. It also provides predetermined image sizes that are commonly used...