WOULD THE BOTTOM OF A WOODEN ROWBOAT REFLECT THE OCEAN CAUSTICS???

I am doing a really exciting split water piece and the bottom of my rowboat (over the mermaid in the vue-caustic filled water) is very dark... but seems to me that I have seen in real life caustic light pattern reflect or shine back on the boat bottom... is it the bottom under the water, if it would do this, or all the outside-under part of the boat above the water line??

I have a layer with each... so if anyone who knows could reply... I am hoping to finish and post this tonight...

Vue choked up and threatened to kill the scene after my mermaid and pirate in the boat were placed (and all the plants, my new caustic lighting)... when I tried to start populating the scene with little fish critters... so to save this scene I am now adding the critters in post... so will be doing that for a bit yet...

Thanks for any help! :)

Lyne

There should be caustic reflections both inside and outside the water on the boat's bottom, very near the water line.

With the caustic i'm not sure - never used caustic in my images yet - but there is always the option to add a fake with postwork ...

A lot of times you can ease the strain on Vue, if you first save your Poser figures in Vue one after each other as Vue objects and replace the Vue objects with the relating Poser figures ...

You could calculate your scene more than ones and calculate each image just with certain Poser objects (as long as they aren't overlap with body parts or shadows ...) - or at least split the number of objects in each render - then take those few renders and use area copy or copy brushes in good paint programs and combine all elements into one image - this way you can stop Vue from crashing ... sure this is extra work, but for certain parts in an image it works

Yes, i have a photo of a rowboat in shallow tropical waters. Caustics all over the boat bottom and sides.

Such caustics do appear in shallow waters where the light bounces off the bottom sands or any surrounding undersea objects. No caustics off the bottom of a boat in deep waters.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1488189

This one was FUN and I learned a lot! oh and I DO make vob's with the textures incorporated and save before I start a project, all the time now. :)

Thanks again! :)

Lyne