Thin film, caustics etc

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here you have a thin film shader grp.its very accurate.based on material IOR and thickness.works with cycles.

GPU Compatible Thin-Film Interference v2.1: Glass Within Glass + Absorption

Update Pending: See post 72 for update v2.2 Hey everyone! Welcome to the colorful update of v2.1 of the thin-film interference node group which was originally adapted from @prutser’s OSL code. Here is pruster’s original thread. This new update generalizes Snell’s law for lossy incident media (such that R+T is always 1 when the films are not lossy), adds absorption, and allows the dielectric inputs and outputs to be calculated with RGB values like everything else. Only the “Interference”/“Thi…

for caustics you can try other renderengines like luxcore appleseed yafaray ect.

Tutorial I Rendering Caustics in Blender with appleseed and Blenderseed