How to Animate Blinking & Glowing LEDs in KeyShot 

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Thanks for the suggestion. I can't make any promises, but we'll see. In the meantime, I encourage you to play around with area lights and emissive materials. That should get you started.

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It should be possible using a color fade, depending on exactly how you set it up. You can use a curve fade now for brightness and color fade for color. Also, if you wish to dive deeper, I have a paid tutorial where I cover more advanced topics based on this subject: gumroad.com/willgibbons

You should be able to. Not sure what you mean exactly, but if you link the materials of several objects, their appearance will be treated as one.

Hey, thanks for the comment. Try using a point light or spot light and use separate geometry to be the bulb. Set the bulb to either emissive or flat and use the point/spotlight to illuminate the room.

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Good question. With that budget, you really can't be picky about brands. The only thing that is important with KeyShot is the CPU. Yes, KeyShot 9 has GPU rendering, but it's not a very mature feature yet and you won't get an RTX card for that budget which KeyShot 9 GPU pretty much needs to be fast. I recommend the most CPU cores you can get for that price. If you go used, you could get a higher end computer, but even a laptop with an 8th gen i7 CPU will be good for that price. I'm not sure if you can find any laptops with AMD Ryzen CPUs yet, but AMD processors have been cheaper and faster recently. Good luck!

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No. You could do that. Typically it's less work and leaves your model in one piece if you just go with image-based graphics. But, it'd work.

Good question. It might not be possible. Generally, you can use a color fade node to control the color. But if you're controlling the brightness with a color fade node then you'd have to use a color fade to control the intensity/brightness as well as a color fade for the color. I hope that helps.

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Sure. Just create a white plastic label. Then, add another label (this time a green emissive label with the text/graphic as the opacity map). Then use a curve fade to fade the light (emissive label) on and off.

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I don't think it's possible.

Hi Candice, yeah, that's the challenge. I found that by playing with material settings, like color, transparency distance, IoR was the only way. It wasn't 100% perfect, but I found I could get close just by tweaking material values until they pretty much matched

@@WillGibbons hehe okay then challenge accepted. I'll tweak material attributes then. Thank you! Thank you! I learned a lot from this session. I appreciate all that you do.

No, sorry. 10K is massive though. I'd just do it in post if that were the case.

Based on such little information, I have no clue! I'm sorry :(

@@WillGibbons well I made a png out of a vector image it's in a blue color, when I attach the gradient, no matter what I do, it remains blue, but in different shades. I did it exactly the way you showed :)

Hi. I typically use 30fps. But, 24fps should be the lowest you can go and still get smooth playback.

@@WillGibbons thanx, but I have doubt, your animation is almost a static one with no camera or model movements just only the light flickering and my doubt is why can’t the frame rates be low like for 5fps or less for such almost a static animation. Because I did an animation with a car just parked near a lamp post and all the lights goes on one by one but it takes more than 80hours of to render with 24fps. I just need to reduce the render time as I don’t use any camera or model movements it’s just only the lights going on.

Try it and let me know how it goes!

@@WillGibbons Finished the rendering, it took 10hrs 48mins and the results were not bad actually . I expected it to come out as too flickery, but I was surprised to see a okayish smooth video.

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