Hi
I’m trying to model a swimming facility with several pools.
I would like the water to have some caustics, and i have turned this setting all up in the material settings for the water, and the caustics shows up fine when i move around in the view, but as soon the view stops, or when i export images - the caustics disappears or get very faded.
Am I’m doing something wrong?
Jorgensen
really don’t look like a pool
How deep is the pool, in meters?
1 meter - but i can change that if it helps.
right now the water is a box should it be only a single face?
Jorgensen
Box or single plane should not make a difference but a plane is less error prone.
The depth does not seem to be the problem.
Caustics require significant lighting to be visible. In your case, the sun is either strongly occluded by clouds or entirely disabled and reolaced by a relatively dark HDR pano.
As I wrote - the caustics are there when i move the camera - but as soon the render settles down, the cautics are almost gone.
I have tried to
disable hdri
set sun at max
no skies
same result.
but it’s not that important - i’ll go with what i have for now.
Jorgensen
