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    Caustics & BhodiNut Shader

    Posted by Keith Hill on February 5, 2006 at 10:53 pm

    Still being kind of new to some things in the core version of C4D 9.52. I’m going through different Tuts on the web. The one I’m doing now is an exercise in Caustics. The Tut is structured around a Plane, Sphere and Light. I beleive the Tut was originally written for version 7 The Main settings for the Caustics read:

    [ Doubleclick to open the Light panel.
    -General Tab: Leave light Type to Omni, Set Shadow Type to Soft.
    -Caustic Tab: Just check the Enable in Surface Caustics. Leave the paras.]

    Question: After I’ve selected Light in the Object Manager and I go to the Attributes Manager to enter the settings. I can’t access the Surface Caustics checkbox in the Caustics Tab. It’s Shaded out. What’s the reason for this and the workaround.

    The other thing is that this Tut talks about a BhodiNut Shader. I don’t see it in C4D. Is it under another name or has Maxon replaced BhodiNut with another Shader?

    Thanks to anyone who can assist.

    Keith Hill
    https://www.LightedPath.biz
    Dallas, TX
    FCP 5.0.4, Motion 2.0.1, Combustion4 (Mac), Cinema 4D r9.5, PhotoshopCS2, PIllusion 3, DVD StudioPro 4.0.2, SoundtrackPro 1, ; Mac G5 (v10.4.4) 2Ghz, 1.5 RAM

    Nolan Scott replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies

  • Nolan Scott

    February 5, 2006 at 11:29 pm

    I presume to use

  • Keith Hill

    February 5, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    Aw man! You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve got to have Advanced Renderer to have Caustics? That’s jacked up, man.

    You would know a workaround of some sort would you.

    Thanks for the help Nolan. I’m sitting up watching the game and messing with C4D.

    Keith Hill
    https://www.LightedPath.biz
    Dallas, TX
    FCP 5.0.4, Motion 2.0.1, Combustion4 (Mac), Cinema 4D r9.5, PhotoshopCS2, PIllusion 3, DVD StudioPro 4.0.2, SoundtrackPro 1, ; Mac G5 (v10.4.4) 2Ghz, 1.5 RAM

  • Keith Hill

    February 5, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    Aw man! You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve got to have Advanced Renderer to have Caustics? That’s jacked up, man.

    You would know a workaround of some sort would you.

    Thanks for the help Nolan. I’m sitting up watching the game and messing with C4D.

    Keith Hill
    https://www.LightedPath.biz
    Dallas, TX
    FCP 5.0.4, Motion 2.0.1, Combustion4 (Mac), Cinema 4D r9.5, PhotoshopCS2, PIllusion 3, DVD StudioPro 4.0.2, SoundtrackPro 1, ; Mac G5 (v10.4.4) 2Ghz, 1.5 RAM

  • Nolan Scott

    February 6, 2006 at 4:06 am

    Maybe you find this link a little helpful:

    https://gw.marketingden.com/planets/radiometer.html

    Cheers
    Nolan

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