Ali Fatoorechi

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Since 5月 2022

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Caustics in Karma ? 2024年9月17日4:19

There is no dedicated sampler for caustics in Karma yet.

However, you may take a look at Render Geometry Settings for caustics and fake caustics options which give control
over enabling/disabling caustics, the fake caustics color and opacity:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/lop/rendergeometrysettings.html [www.sidefx.com]

Normal/bump maps and sharp shadow terminator 2024年9月16日8:06

You may try Bump Shadow Terminator [www.sidefx.com] (a H20.5 Karma CPU(only) feature) in Render Geometry Settings to soften the hard shadow line.

Microstructures and shadow shading 2024年9月16日7:59

The Bump Shadow Terminator is H20.5 feature and Karma CPU only(atm).

The next daily build will have a fix to use the smooth goemetry normal so that the facets are not visible as in the above snapshot.