Shadow caustics won't work

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I have set caustics rendering as mentioned in various tutorials . But it won’t work on my machine. I’d appreciate if someone could check it fails on theirs. There’s a glass ball and two wavy tiles. If all else fails, I d appreciate getting a minimal working example :slight_smile:

see attachement https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVr2vmM6py9m_bWfy52Wu947AK98oCJs/view?usp=sharing

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Hi,

It looks like this in my case:

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Is that what you’re trying to achieve?

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You need to set the glass objects to “smooth shade” for it to work.

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Apply Shade Auto Smooth and flip the floor normal

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/scene_layout/object/editing/shading.html

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Thanks everyone ! That works.

Sorry for the delay.

Very welcoming community .

I have just learned that combinatorial configuration amounts to having a complex software state. Will be more cautious and thorough. Thanks for the lesson.