I'm using photons to get the proper caustics, though
I've noticed some problems when using them:
1. Shadows don't look good.
The center object casts a shadow onto the floor,
but the edges where the shadow meets the box
is all soft and blurry (due to the photon-spacing, I
guess). I'd have to use VERY high spacing to get
proper shadows.
2. Lighting passes through thin objects
If the hull of the target object (or the object onto which
the photons are dropped) isn't thick enough, the other
side gets lit as well. This is a known problem with
the technique, cause photons don't undergo the
parsing-intensive light-tracing.


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Tim Nikias v2.0
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> > I've uploaded another animation to my WIP section.
> > It makes use of the latest Macro, Water_Stomp().
>
> This is very cool! :)
>
> Are you using caustics? I can't quite tell, but it looks like you are...
>
> Rune
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> rune|vision:  http://runevision.com (updated Oct 19)
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