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Bottom of the Sea
I have a project where I need to composite some stuff into an underwater scene.
I’ve created my sea floor with all it’s objects, but it doesn’t look right. I need to have light from the ocean surface on the bottom of the sea. I’m guess I would use caustics for this. My question is, does caustics work on 3D layers?
My sea floor scene uses 3D layers to set up. I have a 3D layer for the sea bottom and surface. The surface is animated.
I’m thinking as I write this… so I’m guessing I would use the surface layer with caustics for the light on the sea floor layer and to do that, I would precomp the sea floor with the caustics effect and then use that precomp for my floor.
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If your surface layer does in fact have some sort of caustic effect, your precomp method will do the trick. However, you will probably want to put the precomped caustic layer in some sort of blending mode like Add, Screen or Overlay and probably reduce the opacity somewhat.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
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