Caustics

Rendering scene using the mental ray for Maya renderer without using Caustics.

Rendering scene using the mental ray for Maya renderer with default Caustics.

• Emit Photons: On
• Photon Intensity: 8000
• Caustic Photons: 10000

Rendering scene using the mental ray for Maya renderer with Caustics.

Increased refractions levels:

• Refractions: 6
• Max trace depth: 
• Max Photon Depth: 6  
• Photon Refractions: 6 
• Photon Intensity 36000

Photons Map

Increasing caustics quality:

• Accuracy: 900 
• Radius: 1.5
• Caustic Photons: 50000