By going to your personal library, and selecting Essential Keyshot Materials, you'll be sent directly to your Almond online portal. Here, you'll have access to all of your downloadable content - the materials, 3D models, Keyshot scene files, instructional videos and digital booklet. We highly recommend starting with the instructional videos to learn exactly how best to get started with the pack!

Essential Keyshot Materials was designed for intermediate-experienced users. However, the majority of the materials included in the pack have drag-and-drop functionality. Other materials, with very distinct patterns and properties, will require some additional setup - which will require you to have a good understanding of Keyshot's material graph. Instructional videos are included for this (but they are not 'Introduction to the Material Graph' tutorials.) To get the most from the pack, we also recommend customisation of the materials, which also requires an understanding of the material graph. 

TLDR: Yes, but we highly recommend learning how to use the material graph!

Each material is designed to work (as much as possible) straight out of the box as a drag-and-drop system. However, for a small number of materials, a certain amount of setup will be required, especially for those materials that have very distinct patterns and properties. To help you with this, instructional videos are supplied and can be found via your Almond portal alongside your Keyshot materials.

Yes! All of the materials have been fine-tuned to work in any environment with any lighting setup, but in order to get the most from Essential Keyshot Materials, we encourage you to make them your own through customisation. Swapping textures, tweaking colours, fine-tuning the roughness and adjusting the bump will give your materials an entirely different look and feel. However, to be able to do this, a good understanding of the Keyshot Material Graph is required. We’ve ensured that each of the material graphs for your materials are clean and tidy, but some of them are complex - so be prepared if you wish to make detailed changes to materials with more complex material graphs.

Some of these materials are very detailed and may require a significant amount of horsepower. Unfortunately, computers running a CPU with a low amount of cores will need to allow for longer render times (that’s the way it goes!) and in most cases, these materials will eventually become noise-free provided they’re given enough render time. However, we highly recommend using a computer with no less than 8 cores (16 threads) in order to work with these materials efficiently.

The Essential Keyshot Materials pack was created using Keyshot’s standard CPU mode. However, all materials are compatible with Keyshot’s GPU mode.

The materials included with Essential Keyshot Materials are compatible with most versions of Keyshot, although we recommend using at least Keyshot 9 to make use of all variations of materials, as well as the included Keyshot scene files.