KeyVR Capabilities

With KeyVR you can, with the click of a button, bring your product into VR, enabling you to present your product in-scale, and make design decisions throughout the design process.

Our development team is continuously striving to give you the most photorealistic VR experience possible, without compromising the overall performance. On this page you can find an overview of the requirements and capabilities of KeyVR.

On this page:

1 General support
2 High level features
3 Material types
4 Texture Maps
- 4.1 Texture Types
- 4.2 Texture Mapping Types
- 4.3 Environments

General support

	Support	Note

	Support	Note
PBR		KeyVR features a physically based rendering engine with materials lit by an HDRI Environment. Features include environment reflection on various roughness levels on both plastic and metal-like surfaces as well as accurate color transmission on transparent objects. Refraction is approximate.
Global Illumination		Interreflection, caustics and color bleeding is not simulated due to performance requirements in VR. No light sources beyond HDRI environment are supported.
GPU hardware		Recommended Nvidia GTX 1080 / AMD Vega 64 or better to keep smooth frame-rate.
Polygon count		Polygon count only limited by GPU memory, but in order to keep a smooth frame-rate we recommend aiming for 3 million or less polygons on a high end GPU.
File format support		KeyVR can directly render all the file types that KeyShot can import. KeyVR itself can load KSP or BIP. Note that the geometry has to be triangle based, curve based geometry, zspheres and NURBS are not supported (NURBS can be re-tessellated in KeyShot).

High level features

	Support	Note

	Support	Note
Multi materials		Materials within a Multi-Material can be selected via the KeyVR tool Switch Material.
Model sets		Model Sets can be selected via the KeyVR tool Switch Model Set. If a Model Set is "always visible" this is also respected in VR to e.g. add static scene setups.
Environment		The active Environment can be selected via the KeyVR tool Switch Environment. Move Model lets you rotate the environment, if it is not locked.
Camera		The camera position can be selected via the KeyVR tool Switch Camera. Camera Settings that don't make sense in VR will be ignored e.g. spherical, field of view, shift, depth of field.
Animation		Animations can be started/stopped via the KeyVR menu. (Long animations can take a long time to load). Fade animations are not supported.
Locked		Locked parts of the scene tree and locked environments cannot be moved in VR.
Connect		Users must be on the same LAN or VPN (KeyVR Connect needs a direct connection between hosts and clients via their IP). And launch the same version of the scene, either locally or from a shared folder.
Textures		Limited to image textures using one of the supported mapping types (view supported mapping types) when not baking.
Materials		Multi-materials and basic materials are supported (view supported material types). Baking can improve the representation of some materials.
Image Styles		Basic style (gamma/brightness) is supported, Photographic style not supported.
Material graphs		Support via baking.
Studios
Configurator
Labels		Support via baking.

Material types

KeyVR supports the most commonly used KeyShot materials. Materials that are not supported will be appear as the closest matching alternative. Baking can improve the look of your materials in some cases.

Basic Materials	Support	Note	KeyShot	KeyVR Without baking	KeyVR With baking

Basic Materials	Support	Note	KeyShot	KeyVR Without baking	KeyVR With baking
Diffuse
Flat
Glass		Approximate appearance including refraction and IOR. Does not use roughness.
Glass (solid)		Approximate appearance including refraction, IOR and thickness. Does not use roughness.
Liquids		Approximate appearance including refraction, IOR and thickness. Does not use roughness.
Metal		Baking can result in a closer match of overall color.
Paint
Plastic
Thin Film		Thin Film appears like regular glass without thin film effects (raises warning).
Translucent		Translucent appears as diffuse opaque material (raises warning). Baking can result in a closer match of the overall color.
Advanced Materials
Advanced		Advanced is treated as opaque plastic with diffuse, specular and roughness only (raises warning).
Anisotropic		Anisotropic appears isotropic (raises warning). Baking can result in a closer match of the overall color.
Dielectric		Approximate appearance.
Gem		Gem appears like glass without dispersive effects (raises warning).
Generic		Use baking for an approximate appearance.
Measured		Measured is not supported without baking and objects will appear red (raises warning).
Metallic paint		Metallic Paint looks incorrect for high metal coverage, ignores clear-coat values (raises warning). Baking results in a closer match.
Multi-Layer Optics		Multi-Layer Optics appear like regular glass (raises warning).
Plastic (Cloudy)		Plastic (Cloudy) appears as diffuse opaque material (raises warning) or, when using baking, as tinted glass.
Plastic (Transparent)		Plastic Transparent appears like opaque specular plastic. Transmission is ignored (raises warning).
Real Cloth		Use baking for an approximate appearance.
Scattering Medium		Scattering Medium not supported (raises warning).
Translucent (Advanced)		Translucent (Advanced) appears as diffuse opaque material (raises warning).
Velvet		Velvet sheen ignores back scatter and edginess. Looks like regular specular highlights (raises warning).
Light Sources
Area Light		Area Light appears as emissive. Power is ignored (raises warning).
IES Light		IES Light not supported. Objects appear hidden (raises warning).
Point Light		Point Light not supported. Objects appear hidden (raises warning).
Spotlight		Spotlight not supported. Objects appear hidden (raises warning).
Special
Cutaway		Cutaway not supported. Objects appear hidden (raises warning).
Emissive		Does not contribute light to the scene.
Ground		Ground not supported. Objects appear hidden (raises warning).
Toon		Without baking: Toon contour is ignored. Objects appear as solid base color (raises warning).
Wireframe		Without baking: Wireframe does not show wireframe. Objects appear as solid base color (raises warning).
Xray		Xray not supported. Objects appear as transparent (raises warning) or black with baking.
Material Library Only
Moldtech
Axalta Paint		Without baking: Axalta Paint not supported. Objects appear red (raises warning).

Texture Maps

	Support	Notes	KeyShot appearance	KeyVR appearance	KeyVR, with baking

	Support	Notes	KeyShot appearance	KeyVR appearance	KeyVR, with baking
Label		Use baking or a planar mapped texture.
Diffuse Texture Map		Some mapping types and options are only supported with baking.
Bump Texture Map		Some mapping types and options are only supported with baking.
Specular Texture Map		Some mapping types and options are only supported with baking.
Roughness Map (In Material Graph)		Some mapping types and options are only supported with baking.
Opacity Map		No support for Opacity Maps.

Texture Types

	Support	Note

	Support	Note
Texture Maps		*Blend with color is not supported without baking.
VDB
Tiled UV		Use baking.
Tri-planar
Video Maps
Procedural (2D Texture and 3D Texture)		Use baking.

Texture Mapping Types

Overall only one type of mapping is supported per part.

	Support	Note

	Support	Note
Planar Texture Mapping
UV Texture Mapping
Box Texture Mapping
Cylinder Texture Mapping
Sphere Texture Mapping
Camera Texture Mapping		Active camera is used, but does not update with moving around in VR.
Node Texture Mapping		Use baking.

Environments

	Support	Note

	Support	Note
HDRI environments		Full support for both data driven and procedural environments.
Flatten Ground
Ground Shadows
Background Color
Backplate Image