Caustics

[Macker]

hey guys,

I was wondering if there is a way (other than progressive path tracing) to get caustics (brute force) without generating a caustic photon map? I remember back in the day using Kerkythea and there were a couple of "unbiased" options that were fairly quick and gave you decent caustics straight out of the box... But my memory is a little hazy.

[Macker]

That's a no then for brute force caustics?

[Svetlozar Draganov]

There are a couple of ways to generate caustics in V-Ray but each of them requires some pre-calculation except GI-caustics but they are not the caustics we all know it.

1.Photon Map
2.Caustics
3.GI Cautics