Questions tagged [caustics]
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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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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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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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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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Objects inside transparent object don't render correctly [duplicate]
I'm trying to render a simple cosmetic lip balm tube. The body is made of blue and white plastic, while the overcap is made of clear plastic. When I produce a render, the overcap makes it look like ...
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How can I render caustic using (only) the Cycles render engine?
I'd like to render caustics in Blender with the Cycles render engine. There's a number of (other) questions that explain a few ways to fake it, but I noticed that Blender 3.2 Cycles now has caustics ...
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Trouble using the new shadow caustics in Blender 3.2
So I wanted to make something using the new shadow caustics in Blender 3.2 , like a plane with some random displacement on surface like procedural bubbles or a random height map but doing so the ...
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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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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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Caustics Does Not Work Properly for Refractive Object Inside Another Refractive Object
Operating system: Windows 10 x64
Graphics card: NVidia Quadro RTX 3000 and NVidia RTX 3080
Blender Version: 3.4.1
Issue: it looks like current caustics only supports one object, which makes it ...
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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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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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How do spotlights work in Blender cycles, without the caustic noise of an explicitly modelled spotlight?
In Cycles, if I use a spotlight object to illuminate a matte object, the matte surface is well behaved with little noise. If I explicitly model a spotlight, the cycles renderer has some terrible ...
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