[Bf-committers] No caustics

gandalf3 zzyxpaw at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 04:10:53 CEST 2014


Exactly. The "shadows" checkbox right above the "no caustics" checkbox 
is another example of how I think it should be..

Am I the only one bugged by this? If not, is it possible that this could 
be changed?

On 08/17/14 10:00, Ronan Ducluzeau wrote:
> 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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