Tutorial: Getting Started with Caustics in Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D

Learn how to get started with the new Fast Caustics Solver, introduced in Corona Renderer 4! 00:00 - Introduction 00:35 - What are caustics? 00:56 - Caustics in the physical world 01:59 - Reflective vs. refractive caustics 02:29 - A simple initial scene 02:57 - Enabling reflective caustics (scene-wide) 03:26 - Enabling refractive caustics (material-specific) 04:09 - Comparing with and without caustics in the initial scene 04:44 - A simple pool scene 06:07 - A simple car rim scene 09:04 - What light set ups give good caustic results 11:20 - HDRIs and caustics 13:04 - Artistic control over the caustics (disabling caustics for particular light sources) 14:09 - Disabling caustics for particular lights sources as a speed optimization 19:00 - A production scene 21:08 - Performance optimizing the production scene (turning off caustics from the environment) 26:11 - Ending