Baking caustics as texture

georgespanswick

Hi all,

I am looking to create caustics off a chrome material, which are received on a basic plane underneath. I then wish to bake the caustics out as a 4k texture to use as an alpha at a later point. 

The effect I desire can be easily achieved in substance painter in Iray having caustics enabled with a chrome material applied, but you cannot bake this out, only render which is awkward and messy.

Is this something that is achievable? If so what software, and how is this done? 

Thanks in advance.

Yerus

I think you can solve this out by doing smth like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el8u37Pqadg

georgespanswick

Interesting yerus thank you, I wonder if there's anything slightly more simple however!