Caustics / Dispersion of Light

[Chop91]

Hey!

I wanted to render some kind of caustics and was curious about the dispersion of light too.
I wanted to know how I can achieve something like this in LuxCoreRender

https://blender.stackexchange.com/quest ... nder-prism
https://zeealpal.deviantart.com/art/Sim ... -263606354

The first link seems to use a older version because I see no Glass or Glass2.

Following this post, I just got some basic scene containing a sphere and a prism and some caustics, but no dispersion like in the links above
http://forums.luxcorerender.org/viewtopic.php?t=191

Hopefully someone can help me!


EDIT: It would be also good to know how I can achieve light shafts too.
Also I do not understand which kind of scences 'luxcoreui' supports or if there is a way to convert my blender scene.

[B.Y.O.B.]

Have you raised the "Dispersion" value of the glass node?
You will also have to use "Bidir" as engine and "Metropolis" as sampler to get noise free caustics in a reasonable time.

[Chop91]

I tried what you said, but I can't achieve a result like this :/

https://i.stack.imgur.com/5vFCQ.jpg

[B.Y.O.B.]

It is really hard to guess what is going wrong without the .blend or at least a few screenshots of the scene and settings.
And obviously a rendered image would be good.

Also I do not understand which kind of scences 'luxcoreui' supports or if there is a way to convert my blender scene.

luxcoreui is a tool for developers, not really intended for end-users.
LuxCore has a custom scene format. You can export to it from Blender with the "Only write LuxCore scene" checkbox in the LuxCore config panel.

EDIT: It would be also good to know how I can achieve light shafts too.

Enclose your scene in a cube with null material, add an interior volume, replace the clear volume node with a homogeneous volume node.
You can adjust the strength with the scattering scale factor.
See the attached scene.

[Chop91]

Thanks for your help!

I was just playing arround and basically tried to rebuild the scene from here:
https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/81040/57982

Maybe you can reproduce the rendered image from this post?

[B.Y.O.B.]

Here you go.

[Chop91]

Thanks again!

Probably this works only with the laser?
I tried it with the sunlight before

[B.Y.O.B.]

It works with any light, but you need a tight beam of nearly parallel light rays for a result like in the image you linked.
If you want to use a sun light, you can do it like Newton and let the sun shine into a room through a tiny hole.
(and combine this with the lightshaft setup I posted above, so you see the light in the air)



But it is probably not the method with the highest rendering performance