Now i show a part of a work i done last week, i will post more images tomorrow when i were in the office, images need several changes (most done like sky and other small bugs but not rendered) Also i will try to make a test with caustics, they could be fine 
about render times…less than a hour 2100x1575 in a p4 2.4
the AA artifacts and those things are resize problems and several post pro failures, i will post the final ones as soon i can
Very nice…especially the glass…care to let us know the settings?
Cheers
Neil
glass=90% white in refraction slot, 10% white in reflection slot, no fresnel, ior=1 affects shadows on, difusse colour almost black
It looks great- getting some fish-eye distortion to the left near the umbrella/railing in your first couple of images though. Love the water. If I can make a suggestion (and this is something which I see suprisingly all the time even amongst some fantastic artists)- turn on supersampling (use the max default 2.5) for your wood planks in your material slots. It will take care of the jaggies.
-jujubee
uhm…aa artifacts are for the image resize…
Looks great, I love the saturation, miss the caustics though 
bahhhh damm i dont get a good look to the caustics, mainly for the light position i will try tomorrow anyway
Try this, make a direct light with hotspot/falloff the same size as the pool, turn of generate diffuse and only have generate causticsfor this light, maybe around 1000-1500 subs, in advanced light settings roll-out turn of diffuse, specular etc.
In caustics settings try:
Multiplier .75
Search Dist. 15.0
Max photons 25
I work in inches so your settings may be a bit different
Hi Victor, i’m a fans of ur artwork.
u said that the galss IOR u r using is 1, i think if the IOR 1, it will act like air. why did u use it, is it better than the real glass IOR?
:shock: Nice stuff! :shock:
i use IOR 1 when i dont want any kind of refraction, such as simple glass
lol, i will try tomorrow