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Hi,
I'm working on some MXI lightning images, but I have a pretty slow computer (Pentium-III 800Mhz) and I can't render at levels that make caustics clearer, so I'm asking if light coming from MXI can produce caustics like any other emitter...

and the other thing: is Maxwell capable of correctly reproduce Fresnel effect, i.e. incident-angle dependant reflection?



and thanks NL for one of the greatest gift ever made to the CG community!

good fresnel for Dielectrics... and little less for plastics... but it's in there already....

although it would benice to have a way of controlling it... with a gradient for instance...


Caustics from hdr_MXI emitters are not so strong... but it's there.......

Hervé wrote:good fresnel for Dielectrics... and little less for plastics... but it's in there already....

how can it be obtained?

You cannot switchit on or off the fresnel... it is "coded" into Maxwell...