I found a bug, in the viewport, with light tracing caustics get brighter when zooming out from them or dimmer when getting closer, if I enable and disable light tracing or change the light tracing percentage it goes back to the correct brightness.
(For some reason the gif resolution gets very small)
Quick question; How to eliminate the difference between viewport and final render? Somehow they come out overexposed.
Please create a bug report at https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore/issues/new/choose and upload a file that shows the problem.
MacOs 10.15.4 on iMac Pro Downloaded the latest release today and Luxrender still forces blender to crash while enabling it-installs fine.
Blender 2.3.13
Please open an issue here: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCore/issues
And upload a testscene that shows the problem.
Hello and a healthy new year,
how to sharpen Caustics in Blender Luxrender, more details ?
In nature they don’t look so washed out !
Thank you in advance
Forum Caustics_1.blend (919.0 KB)
I would try this setup in the compositor and try adjusting the sharpen and often filters before they go into the denoise node… make sure you turn off denoise in the render panel so that you can manually denoise it in the compositor as shown.
in luxrender there are different pixel filters, lancoz i think is the sharpest but for the compositor setup i showed you might want Gaussian to start of with then sharpen it so you dont get black ringing artifacts so much.
I might try with that blend file but do you have a photo for reference of the look you are trying to achieve?
I updated the scene, changed a bunch of render settings and gave it a 5 min time limit and separated the caustics into its own layer, so you can do anything with them in the compositor.
The way i have set it up i boosted the caustics, denoised them gave them a filter, denoise, bloom, color, and chromatic aberration just as an example, then mixed it back in with the color add node.
Enjoy!
Heres a render using luxrenders camera imager settings, to give Tonemapping, F-stop, shutter, ISO,chromatic aberration, vignette, DOF, bloom, Analong Film Simulation (Kodachrome 64CD)
And i gave the scene an HRDI + the glass a normal map. 18 min render on GTX1070
Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again , you are my hero 
!
Best regards
You are welcome.
I cant upload a file with HDRI and normal map because file size way too big.
But here is a screen shot of some of the camera settings.
Comparison between path Engine and Bidir.
@ Thesonofhendrix,
thanks again for sharing your time and knowledge with us!
Stay healthy
Love greetings
Latest Official BlendLuxCore v2.61 is out:
Not yet available for Mac.
Will be soon asap
Awesome! Thanks!
Will wait your great projects with LCR! ))
Latest improved version is here:
