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Material Types

Material Types bring the power to quickly apply real world, physically accurate material properties to your parts. Each Material Type comes preset with settings to quickly apply or change material with the option to adjust each setting as desired. There are four categories of KeyShot Studio Material Types.

Last updated 3 August 2026

Material Types bring the power to quickly apply real world, physically accurate material properties to your parts. Each Material Type comes preset with settings to quickly apply or change material with the option to adjust each setting as desired. There are four categories of KeyShot Studio Material Types.

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There are also some libraries with materials, made in corporation with manufacturers. These can have a custom set of parameters, that are not available from the Material Type drop-down in the Material Panel, but which can be edited when the material is applied in your scene.

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Advanced

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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Animation Node Types

The Animation nodes are unique in that they allow you to create changing parameters of your materials. When you add an Animation node to your material, it will automatically be added to the animation timeline as well.

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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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