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[BUG] - No caustics from Skylight

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:01 pm
by rgigante
Hi Nick,

after some test on 07.2 i've found that there's no caustics created with a skylight illumination. Follows the generated images.

With skilight:
Image
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/5425 ... nli3yg.png

With meshlight:
Image
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6826 ... y021mg.png


Hope it helps, Riccardo.

re:

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:53 am
by Moses
I think the caustics show up after awhile of rendering. So you probably have to let it render longer.

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:53 pm
by zsouthboy
skylight seems to have problems with this build in general. (not working with SSS, etc)

Use v6 for stuff like this.

infinite plane

Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:19 pm
by soxofaan
You use an infinite plane as floor, I guess.
Try with a finite plane or something, I observed caustics show up more quickly without infinite planes in a scene.

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:21 am
by StompinTom
caustics will be alot more subtle with a skydome on, becuase if you think about it, its basically a huge lightsource that surrounds the object. the caustics 'blend' together if you know what i mean.