FYI: if anyone is not seeing the caustics, set your light radius to zero......magic!

*promosm* 🔥

Thanks a bunch mate! Now I have my toad swimming through murky waters. He's so happy.

this video appeared in my recommendations right when i was about to start learning rigging!! xD i'm glad i found it, i learned so much keep up the good work👍👍

Amazing!!! I had this doubt for months. Thank you very much!

such a good tutorial,keep up the great work!

Nice simulation, keep going👋👋

i could never do this, my computer would explode if i tried this

dude what was going on with your audio in the first minute?

Could you teach us to do an animated version with a water simulation?

I always thought that Cycles would really struggle with caustics and that only the latest versions of Blender would have solved this problem with an option that only workes on CPUs. But that makes it look so much easier to render^^ Thank you for your video") I have never seen this option in Blender and I am definitely going to try this out ")

It’s good but I think that the waves are to slow for the big waves that you’ve get here

Nice walk through the set up. Something is missing though. Perhaps Blender doesn't care in its caustic calculations and the effect will be the same but water is not an infinitely thin layer ( like an X-Y plane with some subdivisions but no z-axis thickness). The refractive index of the entire volume/column of water from where it hits the water surface all the way to the surface upon which the caustic patterns are cast is ALL water and, like a lens, the light is more affected the more of the material volume (the water) that the light passes through. So perhaps the caustics solver just assumes that IOR all the way from the water surface all the way to the caustics receiver but I submit that the look of an underwater item should also have the volume that surrounds it be calculated ,i.e. some light diffusion (unless the water is EXTREMELY unnaturally crystal clear) and some light rays in the water ought to be visible too.

no caustics in the shadows of Susanne back head....I thought thats shadow caustics are for that ...looks strange....

Can you tell me wich Voice Programm you used for the AI Voice that would be awsome ( I subbed :D )

7:52 somehow the light doesnt reach the monkey.

very good video. thanks.

Nice video man. Maybe you can lower the saturation of the colour of water surface.

👍 Very cool!!

Many Thanks!! 😊

Can you show us how the water looks from above when animated and with caustics? Thanks

Hi! Nice Tut. Do u Have any idea why I don't have the shadow caustics box in my light sets Blender 3.4 silicon Thnx

Thanks a lot for this video!

where is the image reference you used

I would love to see your car shader, it looks so real. Pls can u help me with it