Escape Studio’s head of 3D, Mark Spevick demonstrates how to create volumetric caustics in Autodesk Maya, walking though all the settings required to render volumetrics from a spotlight with mental ray.
how to utilise Maya to make gorgeous volumetric caustics
This volumetric caustic effect is very much like the Crepuscular or “God” rays that you would see in the real world. Creating them for the most part is fairly straight forward, however, there are settings in multiple places that you have to deal with, and Mark takes us through that task.