How to create a dark, moody and fading background in Keyshot 7

Описание: In this tutorial i'll show you how to create a dark and moody ground which fades in to the background color in Keyshot 7 Pro.

UPDATE FOR NEWER KEYSHOT VERSIONS:

Since the introduction of geometry nodes in Keyshot, the node setup has changed a bit.

In Keyshot 7 you have a ground material onto which you add your plastic material as a label.

In newer Keyshot versions you will have a new node in front of you ground material with the inputs: "Surface, Geometry and Label" - keyshot calls it the "root node". I will call it the "material output node" because thats basically what it does. It collects all the information and outputs it into the viewport.
So instead of adding the label to the ground material like in KS7 you add the label to the "output node". The rest will work as expected.

Dont get confused by the name of the "root"/"output node". If you change the name of your material in the material tab - the name of this node will change as well. So if you followed the tutorial, the node is called "ground" - because the material is called "ground". You'll end up with two connected nodes called "ground" - which might be a bit confusing at first. The one on the left is a "ground shader" and the one on the right is the "output node" called "ground".

Hope this helps :)


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