Article · Dual Heights Software
Caustics water texturing using Cycles in Blender
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
Explains what caustics are and how to fake them in Cycles with pre-calculated caustic textures layered as emission over a tiled pool material, with a mask for where they show and a shader combine step. About a dozen images.
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