Bone Material

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Hello! I would love to have a bone material (cortical bone specifically). Would love to hear from some Keyshot experts on how to best approach this. My thought process is to start with porcelain and modify - increase roughness, decrease refractive index). Would love to hear others’ thoughts on how they would approach it! If you are up for it, please do explain “why” you would change a given property instead of just giving me specific values.

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Can you share a reference photo or two? That way regardless of someone’s experience with the material, it’d help others lead you to a solution.

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Hi Justin, that’s a great question! If you check out our Cloud Library (bottom left corner of your KeyShot window), we have a bone material that you can download and use instantly. To find it, search “bone”, and a list of materials will show up. Once you download the desired material, you can find it in your Materials Library under the “Downloads” folder. I would recommend playing with some textures to get the ideal finish you are looking for (whether for cortical bone or trabecular). I would also play around with the translucency to make it more opaque as it gives it more of a realistic effect.

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Thank you! I was able to locate it. It does okay for cortical bone, I will work on it further from here. I’m not even sure trabecular will be feasible to represent solely through texturing, but it will be interesting to experiment.

@will.gibbons I’ll try to get some photo references from my workplace. Are there any special lighting considerations/orientations that would be helpful in acquiring these type of reference images?

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Not really. It’s helpful to see any surface properties (roughness, texture, how reflective, sub-surface protperties etc.) Ideally, just one that’s close enough to show any desired detail.

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Justin, are you looking to show cut bone? https://forum.keyshot.com/index.php?topic=25310.msg105970#msg105970
Here is a link to some work I did with sloanelliot to come up with a procedural cut bone. As a medical illustrator I use this all the time.

  1. https://forum.keyshot.com/index.php?topic=28988.new;topicseen#new
    I came up with a way to create a simulated foam mesh in 3D using fuzz. Could also be used for cut bone.

Wayne Heim