Help on Caustic affecting the Production render

[minh_nguyen]

Hi there!
I'm having problems with my Final production renders when Caustic is on. The Production Render on both bucket & progressive mode are vastly different from the Interactive renders with all the same settings.

This is the final Production render which looks like it has no directional light, no shadows, etc


This is the Interactive Render with Caustic On ( same settings)


And this is the normal Production render with Caustic Off by default (same settings)



The Caustics and lighting work fine in Interactive render mode, but how can I get the same result when pressing the production render button ?
Please help

Thank you.

[fixeighted]

Seems to work fine for me on a similar scene, trying all the permutations.
If you link to your scene with just the lights/camera, water and ground then I have time to check it before I start work today

EDIT: Alternatively, here is a scene where it all works fine, to compare https://www.dropbox.com/s/l50zbmrm9r...STICS.max?dl=0

[minh_nguyen]

Funny it works just now when moved the light source which is a Dome light with HDRI along the Z-axis just a lil bit. I've already made sure the photon emitter covers the whole scene so it's must a bug or sth since I've encountered this problem on a different project before.

[fixeighted]

Cool, glad you found the cause