Questions tagged [caustics]
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How to intensify and edit glass caustics?
I am having trouble with my caustics - using 3.2 and they work fine. However they do not do the trick just right - I need the shadow of the glass to have much more of the light streaks, following the ...
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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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how to project fake caustics on 2d image?
I have a 2d underwater background (see images attached) on which I would like to project some fake caustics (such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j17dGVw3_gM), could anyone recommend a good ...
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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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tried to copy this stylized water shader? it's only showed pink. How do I fix it?
I tried to copy these stylized water nodes, from img.
Link to my blend file: drive
But the result I got is pink shaded plane...
I tried to reconnect these nodes and found that maybe the color mix ...
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Trouble in shadow caustics
When transmitting light using the ocean plane, the shadow of the object is displayed as in the right image. I was hoping that the shadow would be formed according to the normal map of the seaweed as ...
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Rendering freeze when using caustics
I'm using a M1 Mac. If enabled caustics, the GPU rendering freezes forever.
I'm using Blender 3.6.2. Just a simple cube and plane can freeze it.
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Getting no caustics
Above is a quick test render to see if caustics were working in the scene, and to my disappointment I'm getting nothing. I checked several tutorial videos to make sure I was doing everything right: ...
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caustics cause way to high render time
I'm working on an archiviz scene, multiflat house with a little garden.
In the garden, I'm adding a small pool, created in a separate file and then imported in this.
During the pool creation, I played ...
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Different shadow caustics in viewport and final render
I'm currently doing an architectural rendering with glass bricks. Since I'm trying to create an accurate and specific pattern of shadows on the wall I'm using shadow caustics. The strange thing is ...
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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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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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