Fluid Caustic Volume Shader Setup for Maya 2014

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Fluid Caustic Volume Shader Setup for Maya 2014

david allen, updated 2015-02-05 07:41:23 UTC 58,893 views Rating: (4 ratings)

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12. Experiments

One of the more fun parts about making this tutorial was messing around with other settings to see what effects they have. Some of the thoughts I had: what happens when you...

Turn off refraction on “waterSurface_blinn1”?
Make water completely flat?
Reduce “Scatter” to turn off volume caustics altogether?
- There’s something serene about clean reflection and refraction caustics without any volume effects
- Might be an aesthetic worth pursuing
Set “Translucence” of “waterSurface_blinn1” to “0.250”?
Add Chromatic Aberration?
Use transmats all around?
No Transmats?
Reverse the normals on the photon boundary cube?

There seem to be ENDLESS ways to make stylized effects like these that aren't quite "realistic" caustics. Enjoy!

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Author: david allen
Submitted: 2014-05-14 18:18:06 UTC
Tags: coustics, maya, refractive, reflective, and volumetric
Software: Maya
Views: 58,893