KeyShot Quick Tip - Pulsing LEDs Using the Color Fade Animation Node

[@zimmatron]

Could you guys do some tutorials on lighting products eg. downlights and how to create effecting lighting.

[@dvillalba3d]

Very nicely explained, thank you.

[@hillaryyap70]

Nice!!! Thank you so much, looking forward to more animation tutorials please!!!

[@alessandrogesualdi1154]

Really useful tip!

[@aeonjoey3d]

very cool. I'm curious why not use the 'fade' animation on the emissive piece (with a prismatic piece always visible for it to shine through) i usually prefer the model to be more realistic with the prismatic clear acrylic or LED material being a clear plastic with a tiny emissive sphere placed strategically. letting the emissive sphere fade also gets you much better caustics and reflections IMHO, but i wonder if there's a performance benefit from using this method. my only objection is that there's a lot of custom material graph nodes that would probably confuse a co-worker who had to take this file over.

[@fakoredeolabode1323]

Thank you for the tip as well

[@fakoredeolabode1323]

Would it be possible to make the light change from one colour to another, say change from white to blue after docking?

[@michaeljarcher]

Duplicate the light, and change colour, use fade in & out of each can achieve that effect. (all be it fiddly) maybe a way to use gradients, but I never experimented with that.

[@fakoredeolabode1323]

@@michaeljarcher Thank you so much Micheal for making time. I, however, found a way around it. I plugged the colour fade into colour plug rather than intensity, then change the colours at both ends of the gradient. something in that line

[@michaeljarcher]

@@fakoredeolabode1323 O yes good idea, Let's all wait and see what Keyshot 10 brings, I feel the animation will get a big update. :-)

[@MrAli015]

cool tips as always thanks Keyshot (Y)

[@tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.1379]

(My favorite rendering engine) 1st: lumion. 2nd : keyshot Me: Two half brothers.

[@arko3822]

Thats a lot of hassle for blinking led

[@oursours]

Really dumb example, you can do that 100 times faster in post.

[@aeonjoey3d]

dumb example? why are you on here calling this dumb? with this set up as part of the animation you can change angles, materials, lighting in seconds using multi-materials and studios, and send batches of animations out and never have to do this 'faster in post' since it's already part of the animation.

[@tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.1379]

Then do yours , let's learn one or two from you.