Water Caustics Help

[RobSteady]

Can anyone provide a sample max scene with a simple pool and water caustics?
Not working for me...

[RobSteady]

Anyone?

[coilbook]

I think you must use pmc render engine. But if you do underwater I would just buy fake animated caustics for the bottom at pond5.com

[RobSteady]

I think you must use pmc render engine.

Tried that, no luck.
The shot should look similar to this:

[Elvissuperstar007]

Anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... 1Sn0MbPOXQ

[mbetke]

I didn't get it running too yesterday when I followed several hints, threads and tutorials. Very strange. Maybe use a caustics texture and thats it.

[azen]

HI,

I will take a look for a suitable scene from our in-house collection to share here. If I cannot find one, I will put a simple example scene together as soon as possible. Hopefully that will help. One clarification - are you looking to render stills, or an animation?

Cheers,
Azen

[RobSteady]

Thanks, only need it for stills.

[gabrielefx]

you need a deformed mesh with displacement to simulate waves.
You have to use PMC and parallelism set to maximum.

[RobSteady]

Thanks guys but can someone just upload a simple max scene?