[Bf-committers] No caustics

[Ronan Ducluzeau]

I think it is just due to historical order of addition.
Caustics were enabled by default before creation of the option.
Cycles guideline was to have every high quality/low rendering feature
enabled by default.
The developer who added the option wanted to disable caustics.
So, he added a "No caustics" option. Maybe at this moment, there was a
problem with saving enabled option of Cycles UI in startup.blend.

But a "Caustics" option enabled by default like "transparent shadows" one
would be the same that what we have, now.


2014-08-15 3:40 GMT+02:00 gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com>:

> This has bugged me for a while now..
> Is there particular reason the "no caustics" option in *render settings
>  > light paths* is called "no caustics" as opposed to just "caustics"?
>
> It seems
> (
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Architecture/RNA#Properties
> )
> it's preferred to avoid such names, so is there some special case here
> that I'm missing?
>
> --
> -gandalf3
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