Cheetah3D 3.2 Beta 1 (with caustics)

[Martin]

I did the test again see 4 views and settings and the same thing happens
If the photons are set to 1,000,000 inthe light source then it's quite stable though...

I'll send you the file

Hi,
thanks for the file. That was not a bug in Cheetah3D. Your scene is mainly illuminated by the camera light. But the camera light doesn't create caustics. Your point light only has a very weak influence. That's why the caustics are very weak.

Now you simple have to turn off your camera light and increase the intensity of the point light. Than it works as expected.

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Martin

 

[luke Bocchinelli]

Dear Martin

Thanks for that

and your right I did do tests with the camera light off and it's fine...

Sorry about that

Regards

Luke

 

[Martin]

I set three pure photon lights (spot type) on this scene at same position, same rotation. these lights have different color (red, blue, green).
please try it.

That is a great idea. But as peer already said slightly moving and rotating the lights might even improve the effect.

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Martin

 

[Simm]

Double Help Menus

The 3.2 Beta gives me double Help menus. (See attached image.) The first one, when pulled down, shows the Help link and the Forum link. The second Help menu only has the Help link in its pull-down list. This is on a Dual 2.5 GHz G5 running OS 10.4.6.