Just for fun

[RErender]

Looking good Vlado, nice times too, I say you just release rc3 and then keep playing no need for a full 1.50

Those look cool...
Not that I need to use caustics much, but those few times I have tried to use them I never seem to get the result I want.
Or the amount of testrenders to tweak them right are way to time consuming.

-Tom

There are caustics all over the place in real life, if they are easy cheap and fast bring them on it will just add to the reality.

[RErender]

oh yeah, dispersion an volume caustics would be nice too :P

[DaForce]

oh yeah, dispersion an volume caustics would be nice too :P

2nd that!!

[Morbid Angel]

oh yeah, dispersion an volume caustics would be nice too :P

2nd that!!

3rd that

[jacksc02]

very nice tests vlado, it would, look forward to seeing this in a build soon

[jacksc02]

oh yeah, dispersion an volume caustics would be nice too :P

2nd that!!

3rd that

4th that!

[winberg]

Looking good Vlado, nice times too, I say you just release rc3 and then keep playing no need for a full 1.50

Those look cool...
Not that I need to use caustics much, but those few times I have tried to use them I never seem to get the result I want.
Or the amount of testrenders to tweak them right are way to time consuming.

-Tom

There are caustics all over the place in real life, if they are easy cheap and fast bring them on it will just add to the reality.

I know that there are caustics all over the place, but how often have you heard a client say that they want more caustics..?

-Tom

[CCS]

They've never asked me for GI or area shadows or blurry reflections either, but they know when "something isn't right" / "it doesn't look real". Those are the details that help sell the image. It's not that the clients ask for these things, but their brains let them know if something looks real or not.

[RErender]

Looking good Vlado, nice times too, I say you just release rc3 and then keep playing no need for a full 1.50

Those look cool...
Not that I need to use caustics much, but those few times I have tried to use them I never seem to get the result I want.
Or the amount of testrenders to tweak them right are way to time consuming.

-Tom

There are caustics all over the place in real life, if they are easy cheap and fast bring them on it will just add to the reality.

I know that there are caustics all over the place, but how often have you heard a client say that they want more caustics..?

-Tom

Right, but it's not about the clients, it's about us (well many of us) with the insatiable need to recreate reality and in the end the clients appreciate a more realistic image even if they don't know why it is.

edit, should of read further before posting. Well put CCS.

[Morbid Angel]

guys in simple terms: its better to have it there and not use it, then not to have it at all.

[jonnybefree]

amen

[vlado]

So some tips on how to enable these in RC3:

(*) Go to the maxscript listener and type "renderers.current.caustics_showCalcPhase=true " without the quotes. This will cause the photon tracing progress to be directly mapped on the image and re-used for the final rendering;
(*) Only directly visible caustics can be visualized in this way. Caustics visible through reflections/refractions will appear in the normal (interpolated) way.
(*) If you are tracing lots of photons, set the Max. density parameter for the caustics to something other than 0.0 as otherwise you'll get memory overflow.
(*) There are limitations on how this works - e.g. it will not work well with DOF and/or motion blur.
(*) This option is experimental. There is no guarantee that it will be present in future versions in the same form.
(*) This option requires additional memory. It may be quite a lot, depending on the image resolution.

Best regards,
Vlado

[priad]

thanks for the Tips !

[jacksc02]

thanks for the pointer vlado. time to test it out

[Paul Oblomov]

BTW - great to test it
Thx vlado!

I won't let this thread die!