Receive Shadows?

[tom.burns]

Hi All!!

I’m evaluating a trial version of Keyshot and just learning about the interface.

Often I need to make hero shots of industrial products, and it’s important for some features in recessed areas of these items to be visible; for example the pins inside of an Ethernet connector. I’ve experiment with the spotlight, but need to remove the shadows inside the recessed areas of this connector, which covers the pins. Does Keyshot provide a method to cause a selected part to receive or not receive shadows?

Thanks for your help!!
…Tom

[marco.wodarz]

You would do this with material(s) instead of specific parts.
For example the material bowling ball use the ray mask with the option “Visible in shadows” toggled off. (no shadow on the pins or on the ground plane)

The material can be decoupled for specific models with “Isolate Materials to Selection”.

example done in 2024.2 - feature available since version 2023.1 (even in GPU mode)