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Nothing special to say, just i still wait for the caustics from the plexi, not visible at this stage of render (6h10 13.38 samples for 1667*2000px)

Amazing!

Caustics fx should be in the shadow on the floor, or am i wrong?

plexi is default glass, abbe 30, ior 1.5

there are lot of problems at the moment with caustics and sun, you may want to have a look here:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1720

thx for the link

So i'll try with a little floor-plane, or segment it a lot (at this moment it's only 1*1)

Very nice Def4d, what are your machin spec.?

def4d wrote: So i'll try with a little floor-plane, or segment it a lot (at this moment it's only 1*1)

you're welcome.

actually if i were you i'd try a studio artificial lighting instead of the phys sky/sun one. i think it would work much better for this kind of product design shot (at least you should get caustics).

I add my specs in my signature, but it doesn't work, same problem with my avatar...

DELL DIMENSION XPS GEN5, P4, 640 (3.2GHz),HT,2MB cache,EM64T
1024MB DDR2 533 [2*512]
160GB (7200rpm) NCQ SATA Hard Drive
NVidia GeForce 6800 256 Mo PCI Express
Win XP Pro SP2

I did this model to try to reproduce great direct/indirect caustics of the boxes when hitted by sun, i can see at home.
So i'll try the plane tip, and/or will use a plane emitter in the final int scene!

ok, thanks Def4d.

Mxcl crashed after about 17h, about 13.8 samples
It's the first time i have the problem
So this is the result, original size, just leveled in Photoshop:






And oh... my log gave this

MAXWELL 1_2_2a_beta ( Engine core: rs1c )
[ Physically and Unbiased Based Rendering ]


## Scene Information ##

56 meshes ( 35110 triangles )

## Render Information ##

*settings:

resolution: 1667 x 2000

*render time: 0 hours 18 minutes 52 seconds

target sampling level: 25
sampling level reached: 3

MaxwellBench 1.0: 21.397354

i replace my big 1*1 floor with a smaller plane, and segmented it so each face is about 40*40cm (like the box), but still no caustics with sun...
It works with an emitter, like we know

This log above belongs to a previously cancelled job.
I think the crash is about CPU and not Maxwell also...
Anyway, when it crashes, the log file is not being updated

haha that was your 3575th usefull post Tom

Tom, pls, say to me seriously. What should be wrong with my PC. This mxcl crashes occured on mine sometimes too. I mean it really seriously. Pls if you can advice me what to check on my system, i will do so. I ask you for advice because it seems to not many users have these crashes.

def4d: like it very much. I dont mind that residual noice. What is setting of your plastic? Looks very realistic (like all Maxwell shaders) And I know your feelings. My render crahes after 56 housr last week.

if i remember well, caustics tend to appear around sample 14 or something...