Steel Cables KeyShot Tutorial 

Thanks George!

Thanks. It's a lot less tricky than you'd think.

Cool! Yeah, I enjoy little challenges like this. Glad you enjoyed.

That's awesome! It's a fun example. Cheers!

Thank you, Marco!

Thanks for the kind words! I really appreciate it. This was a fun one to make.

Thank you!

Thanks so much!

Of course! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you ;)

Thanks Ashutosh!

:D

Oh! I'm glad you found that useful!

Hey Philipp, thanks. It will somewhat depend on your computer and how long/complex the cable is. This one is only like 12" long or something and After each sweep command, my computer had to sit for a minute or two just to perform the operation. It's hard to explain how to do it, but pretty simple if you see a screenshot of how I did it. If you're in my discord, just send me a message or comment and I'll share a screenshot there.

@@WillGibbons Hey Will, thanks for your offer, but I managed to do it in the meantime, even though I guess there are several solutions for this operation. Mine also takes several minutes to calculate, but to be fair, it’s a rather complex design. Anways, thanks for the tutorial and looking forward to your next one! ;)

Good question. In the end, I returned the values to black and white. The reason I made them gray was becuse I didn't think they needed to be so prominenet. When using displacement, the displacement amout will be the hight multiplied by the grayscale value. So, if you have displace set to 1mm and you have the brightest part of your texture set to 50% gray, the total displacement height will be .5mm. I was dialing back that value to see if it produced a nicer result given that it was multiplied by the first procedural mesh texture. Long story short, I was trying to get the size of the small strands to look right compared to the bigger texture. But in the end, I did end up bringing that value back to pure white and black as I said.

@@WillGibbons okay that makes a lot of sense. thanks so much for your insights!

So, this is the pain of this tool. I have found it to be pretty tricky at times. Normally this happens based on the selection of verts/edges you use as guides and seams. Especially since this is CAD data with poor topology (tris instead of quads), you kind of have to do the best you can with what you've got. I probably tried 10 times before it worked well enough in this tutorial.

Thank you for letting me know! I've fixed that just now.

Thank you so much, Will. Also, wanted to let you know, I started my Keyshot journey from your tutorials and I've come a long way since. I'm very grateful for that. 🙏

Cheers!