I've simplified the situation just to experiment.  It seems that my objects
inside the bowl do not want to show caustics. I tried just putting a simple
flat glass wall between the light and the candies, and then I see that the
floor shows the caustics, but the candies do not.  Does it make any
difference that they are mesh objects with uv-coordinates?


Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:
> Wasn't it Thesmophoriazusae who wrote:
> >I have a glass bowl with some candy inside, and the candy looks very dull,
> >as if no light is coming into the bowl...I've tried playing with media,
> >interior, filter/transparency, photons, etc, but I don't know what I'm
> >doing wrong...I should be able to see the shadows and highlights on the
> >candy inside the bowl.
> >Help?
>
> Is it possible that your max_trace_level is not high enough?
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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