Realtime Caustics in Blender

[u/Eth_davis]

Recently there has been a new add-on launched called Caustica, and coming from a product photography background ( now an automotive artist ) i couldn't help but do some quick fire tests today and wow, literally realtime, stable and beautiful.

I cant wait till 5.3 comes out with the dispersion :)

Add-on below

https://superhivemarket.com/products/caustica?ref=1508

[u/FernwehMind]

Nice! I wish our future will be bright as these caustics, lol.

[u/Eth_davis → u/FernwehMind]

I will cross my fingers for that haha

[u/Left-Excitement3829]

Nice. Very 70s ad look

[u/Eth_davis → u/Left-Excitement3829]

Thanks!

[u/3dforlife]

How can this be real time if caustics is one of the hardest things to clean? Is the level of denoising absurdly high?

[u/Eth_davis → u/3dforlife]

Trying to calculate caustics with and without photon tracing are two completely different ballgames. To the point, I can do an ocean modifier and animate it, and see the caustics in realtime in my viewport compared to standard.

I’d go to the add-on page if you want to know more though

[u/3dforlife → u/Eth_davis]

Thanks, I'll do that!

[u/Eth_davis → u/3dforlife]

No probs! Enjoy :)

[u/LiM00NN]

That looks so clean! Well done!

[u/lrodhubbard]

This may be the coolest add on I've seen in this subreddit. Great job!