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• Alessandro Bussi

  2 days ago

  Great Build! Works like a charm, super easy to set up and amazingly fast!

• Giovanni

  15 days ago

  This is a really powerful tool and looks promising for the future (Still learning how to make it work as it should). My only issue right now is not being able to make use of memory tiles (it's set up to 512 but instead it renders the whole screen at once).

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  6 days ago

  Thank you so much Giovanni! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me!
• Anshuman Singh

  25 days ago

  Can not wait for the final version that works as a plugin inside Blender 5.3 with DLSS 5. Blender is going to be the Superman of 3D Softwares thanks to people like you. Great product.

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  25 days ago

  Thank you Anshuman, that is a lovely thing to say. Blender deserves real caustics, and it is great to see how many people are having fun with it. Enjoy your renders!
• bryan

  25 days ago

  Ive been waiting my whole blender life for this, not kidding. I have so many projects where i have either a disco ball, chandeleir, water. All things i didnt know needed a caustic to look good and real. All now achiveable by this addon. Money well spent 10x over.

  Id love to see this as a proper addon to the standard blender vs a rebuild of Blender, but its a very small price to pay.

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  25 days ago

  Thank you Bryan, that is great to hear. On the addon question: I would have loved that too, but the photons run inside the Cycles integrator itself, right next to the path tracer, and no addon can reach that deep. That is the only reason it is a build. The upside is that everything else stays exactly your normal Blender. Enjoy, and thanks for the kind words!
• berlindum

  25 days ago

  Huge thanks to the author for this incredible custom build! I’ve been waiting since 2018 for proper, accessible caustics in Blender. Thanks to your hard work, a long-standing desire is finally fulfilled, and my passion for 3D modeling and rendering has been officially reignited. Fantastic job!

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  25 days ago

  Thank you so much. I know that feeling, I was waiting for caustics that just work in Cycles for years too, and at some point I decided to build them myself. Reading that it brought your passion for rendering back is the best thing I could hear. Have fun with it, and there is more coming in the next update!
• Samantha

  27 days ago

  Absolutely incredible work!
  Can't imagine not using it anymore!

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  27 days ago

  Thank you Samantha, great to hear! Volumetric caustics are coming in the 1.2 update, so there is more on the way. Enjoy!
• Adam

  30 days ago

  I usually don't spend money on Blender except when I'm supporting the foundation directly. But this is honestly my best blender purchase yet. I had a bit of a hiccup cause I was confused by the lack of colours in my caustics on the floor, but I was using a shadow catcher. I just changed it to the image plane and then it looked as good as it looks on the website. My diamond material looked like something I could've took with my phone. Genuinely shocked with the product. Thank you :D <3

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  29 days ago

  Adam, wow, thank you! Someone who normally only supports the Foundation calling this their best Blender purchase yet, that honestly means the world to me as a solo developer. And photoreal diamonds are exactly the level I built this for, so your result makes me even happier.

  My inbox is always open if anything comes up. Enjoy, and thanks for the five stars! :)

  Henrik
• Andrew S

  about 1 month ago

  Finally after many years of trying every rendering engine and trying fake techniques for caustics this comes along and works amazingly great inside of Blender as well as being incredibly fast! Thank you so much!

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  about 1 month ago

  Thank you so much Andrew! Years of workarounds and fake tricks, I know that road all too well. Making that whole struggle unnecessary with a single checkbox was the goal from day one, so your review hits exactly the right spot.

  Have fun with it, and thanks for the five stars!

  Henrik
• Braders Bruno

  about 1 month ago

  Does exactly what it says it does. Fast, beautiful renders with an extremely easy setup. No more time spent looking for the best render parameters. Just use the Blender defaults and that's it. I even decrease the number of samples from the default 4096 to 1024 and most of the time it's more than enough. I'm just amazed by the results. I'm now revisiting some of my old scenes which had fake caustics or super long render times.
  Just increase the "intensity" slider and you end up with a result where you think : "That's too much !". I never thought I woud say that from a Blender render ! 🤣
  Also, Henrik was very supportive and quickly answered the few questions I had before buying. Good support is great part of the experience. 👍
  Best spent 59$ on an "addon" ever ! Worth every penny. 6 stars for me.
  Can't wait to see what future updates will bring to the users !

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  about 1 month ago

  Wow Bruno, thank you. I honestly had to sit down for a second reading this. You going back to your old scenes and throwing out the fake caustics, that is the whole reason I started this thing. And yes, "that's too much!" I laughed, I know that moment. Glad the support felt good too, I just try to answer the way I'd want to be answered. There's an update coming soon that I'm really excited about. Enjoy, and thank you for the six stars!
• Nikita Bukoros

  about 1 month ago

  Crazy good solution for caustics, simple and fast straight from the box

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  Henrik Soeltzer

  about 1 month ago

  Thanks so much Nikita, I'm really happy to hear that! Simple and fast straight from the box is exactly what I was going for, so reading that from you means a lot. Have fun with it!

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