The Magic Of Caustics

[KC149]

Hi guys,
Today I've been working on making some of my basic materials a bit more detailed, I've noticed that when i turn caustics on a glass material the object completely occludes the light as if it were non transparent. Ive attached a before and after of ythe direct lighting pass but the same thing happens in all the passes where you'd expect (/not expect) to see it. Any Ideas Guys?

All the best

[pokoy]

I guess because light transport is then being done by a different component of the light path, hence it will be visible in a different pass, not direct anymore.

[maru]

Are the caustics visible in the beauty pass?
They might be cut off by max sample intensity (in performance tab). In such case you can try increasing it to ~100 (just for a test!), or setting it to 0 to disable it completely.

[KC149]

Hey guys, thanks for the help.  Setting the Max Sample Intensity to 100 did the trick, I was using this material on windows and glass doors that are across the room so ill probably just leave it off in this instance but thanks anyway at least i now know how to fix it.