KeyShot Studio
Advanced Materials
Last updated 3 August 2026
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The Advanced material is the most versatile of all KeyShot Studio material types. There are more parameters in this material than in any other. With this variety of parameters, materials such as metals, plastics, transparent or cloudy plastics, glass, leathers and diffuse materials can all be created from this singl...
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Anisotropic
The Anisotropic material type gives you advanced control over the highlights on the material surface. On other material types that have a single “Roughness” slider, increasing this value causes the highlights on the surface spread out evenly in all directions. Anisotropic gives you control over the highlight shape b...
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Area Light
The power of the light can be controlled in either Watt, Lumen or Lux. Lumen or Lux are recommended for best results. The choice between Lumen or Lux depends on the preferred workflow.
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Assigning Materials
To assign materials to models, drag and drop them from the Materials library onto a part in the Real-time View or in the Scene Tree. Before you drop the material onto the part, you will see a preview of the material on the part beneath the mouse cursor. The material will not be assigned until you let go of the left...
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