water glass and caustic

[nico]

can you re give the scene with change to me?
with my setup after 55 min the render isn't end....
medium setup

[salvatore]

excellent work!
I too have experienced a glass without success
I will treasure your experience

[nico]

mmm i'm to this point.
now i've all caustic in scene!!!

[silverlw]

Thank you Nico for letting us test your scene. Here is the test setup in return.

[silverlw]

Maybe too much effect but i wanted to show that youre not limited to lights. This is an HDRI image of a window mapped on a environment-sphere surrounding the setup and as you can see the window and it's colours are seen in the caustic pattern. This is 20 million photons.

[ana028]

Very nice caustics Silver. I like the hdr test.

[nico]

optimus!!!!
thank's silver...your render scene is very very fast.
now i study it

[nico]

silverlw, sorry for disturb but when you use a hdri disabilities the light or use a small valure of brithness for imageworld?

[silverlw]

I dont use any lights at all, only an HDRI mapped on a sphere surrounding my objects i want to lit. You CAN use imageworld if you want but then you need to use lightmapping instead of photonmapping. Here is the scene again and i have included the hdri.