[Bf-committers] No caustics

[Daniel Salazar - patazstudio.com]

Shadows should be renamed to Transparent Shadows tough :)
Daniel Salazar
patazstudio.com


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:10 PM, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>>
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>>> -gandalf3
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