Gi bounces in light cache

[cgdom]

I'm sure this has been asked on the forum before, but for some reason the search does not produce anything relevant, but where is the equivalent to GI bounces like one has in the brute force GI settings when the GI type is set to light cache ?

[joconnell]

Hmm, the parameter used to be exposed in the maya ui. Light cache is reeeally fast compared to other GI methods (although not as detailed for first bounce like brute or irmap) so the default amount of bounces is 100.

[cgdom]

Anyone happened to know where that parameter went ?

[joconnell]

Not there in maya 3.6 either, must have vanished even earlier. It's one of those controls that you never bother adjusting from the default so likely chosen as a redundant control by the developers - what did you want to try out by tweaking it?

Just as a bit more info, light cache will try to bounce light until the amount of light it adds with each new bounce doesn't make much difference.