{"id":1075,"date":"2011-12-27T16:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2015-09-22T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T22:37:53","slug":"vray-caustics-setup-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/27\/vray-caustics-setup-tutorial.htm","title":{"rendered":"V-Ray Caustics in the Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I show you <strong>how to setup caustics in V-Ray <\/strong>and getting this result:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1079\" title=\"caustic1b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustic1b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustic1b.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustic1b-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1080\" title=\"caustic2b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustic2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustic2b.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustic2b-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In these years I worked a lot with live trainings (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/17\/render-vray-training.htm\" target=\"_blank\">see here<\/a>) and from the 2012 I will work online with you:\u00c2\u00a01 easy lesson per week we&#8217;ll learn a lot of things togheter.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"premium\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is our goal:<br \/>\nGive you easy, fast and comfortable knowledges about 3ds max + V-Ray + photoshop, every week.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I wrote a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/29\/vray-caustics-tutorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">post about Caustics here<\/a>. It&#8217;s time to update those contents with an\u00c2\u00a0<strong>effective video<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0and a\u00c2\u00a0<strong>couple of files<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0to let you test and play with parameters. This is CG Blog Premium and for this time it&#8217;s free. Another\u00c2\u00a0gift for you&#8230; happy new year ^^<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Watch, try, learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34216299?color=ff9933\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO-SUMMARY<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Important:<\/strong><\/span> disable<strong> Affect Shadows<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">to get caustics (this is not in the video!)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Enable caustics<\/li>\n<li>Set Photon emit radius (V-Ray Sun)<\/li>\n<li>Increase Caustics Subvids (Vray Properties &gt; V-Ray Sun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXERCISE<\/strong> :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/caustics-pool-v2.zip\">download this file and repeat the exercise<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor any doubts check the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153FINAL\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version file.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-align: right;\">( Files for 3ds Max 2009 or higher)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to simulate the pool effect using caustics? We need to setup caustics in V-Ray and it&#8217;s really easy. You just need to know a couple of things and a little secret. Watch the video and try downloading our files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[24,39],"tags":[41,42,43],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}