Procedural Surface Caustics Shader

Procedural Surface Caustics Shader helps bring real time underwater caustics to life!

Runs flawlessly in both Eevee and Cycles, and pairs amazingly well with the Real-Time Physical Caustics from it's parent addon, Shaders Plus. Perfect for pools, oceans, lakes, rivers, or anything abstract you can dream up! Check out the free demo today, or the full Pro version, if you're really ready to dive in! 

(Treasure Chest Scene included)

NEW UPDATE!!☝

All New Feature Set, Project Real-Time Caustics with the new Light Node Group Feature! Simply Enable Nodes on your lights, plug in this new Group, and Viola!

This new update introduces a suite of new features, including...+

• Updated Node Group UI (Panel Organization)
• Added "Wave Animation" settings to all caustics types
• Added "Material Presets, Node Groups, Object Presets" categories to the Asset Library, for dragging and dropping in any scenario.
• Added "Falloff Settings" to the Caustics Light Object; Clamp the start and end positions of the lights influence. (Best results when used within Volumetric Environments)
• Added Blur Settings (Falloff Blur for Light Nodes)

Powerful lighting control!

(Light Presets are exclusive to Cycles)

Parallax Depth Caustics Shader!

Stunning Results!

No need to fuss with all the settings to get good results; you'll get stunning results right out of the gate!

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Render by - Carlos Fernandez Puertolas @chapu_art

Ultimate Control

Control the look over the Tint, Shape, Exposure, Animation, Waviness, and even realistic Dispersion!

User Friendly

The controls and settings have been finely tuned so that you can tweak the look to however your little wet heart desires, and you'll always get great results!

Render by Luis Miguel Maldonado

Procedural Dispersion

Lite vs. Pro

Lite offers basic functionality to get your feet wet before taking the full dive! You still get fantastic results, but with just less control, and no future updates.

With Pro, you'll get control over the caustics shape, exposure, dispersion, and future updates!