Questions tagged [caustics]
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Fixing a shader that behaves differently (3.2a =>3.2b)
Basically, I've constructed a shader that I'm very happy with using blender-3.2.0-alpha+master.295d5c6ef5b9-windows.amd64-release.
When I tried to import it into my ...
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Blender 3.1.2 M1 chip- Metal- GPU enabled- cycles on but NO CAUSTIC checkbox
According to tutorials with the uplisted settings I should have the opinion to see "caustics" checkboxes under object properties, but there are no caustic boxes.
I use MacBook Air m1 chip ...
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Caustics options not show in 3.1 final
Caustics options not show in 3.1 final
Trying to enable this. Every tutorials shows it up under lights, and object/shading.
I am in Cycles. But still no option.
Official release of blender 3.1.
Any ...
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Why is my light path shader drawing these cross shapes?
I was trying to make a dispersive caustics shader in Cycles by making a rainbow-gradient glass shader and then mixing it with a normal white glass shader. I fiddled with the light path node for a ...
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Denoised render's shadows too distorted without Indirect light clamping - too opaque with Indirect clamping. How do these interact? [duplicate]
You can read in my previous thread about my struggle with this part. I made a milestone just now, increasing Indirect clamp will remove the fireflies, however the shadows are now too opaque.
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How do I make this iridescent wavey material?
I found this beautiful render consisting of different iridescent glass-like objects. While I understand how to generate this geometry, how would I go about generating this material? Is it in the ...
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How to get more caustics
i was following Blender gurus most recent tutorial , and was working on a glass plane which had the following node setup
This is exactly what blender guru had shown in the video and is showing ...
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Blender 2.8 and Caustics in YafaRay and POV
Hello dear Blenderheads,
It's a very technical problem here:
I'm working on a project and I need Caustics
Looks like it's very hard to obtain good Caustics in Cycles due to the nature of the ...
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How to fake reflective caustics in Cycles?
I have learned how to fake refractive caustics, but I still want to know how to fake reflective ones. Like the ones in the picture. Is it the Light Path node?
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Glass / jelly material speckled with fireflies
I'm working on an animation where a cube of jelly falls from the sky (it's best not to think too hard about it).
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Here's frame 45:
There are loads of speckles, which I've learned are called "...
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Creating beautiful caustics in Cycles [duplicate]
After seeing the results obtained with LuxRender on this page, I was curious to try and reproduce beautiful caustics in Cycles such as these:
I created a scene and added some lights, following the ...
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How to create and animate the water reflection (Caustics) on an object?
What is the best method to create this kind of reflection and how to animate it?
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