I've been really having to troubleshoot the heck out of getting my computers to render, I have had no idea what is going on...
The would render with the normal Maxon One license in the software, then not render via command line ; just pause with no crash or hints in the log or anything.

I finally ...

I accidentally began my scene at the wrong scale (100x too large)
But, it lead me to an interesting discovery... scene scale has an effect on material noise resolution? (Octane noise, not c4d Noise)
I had built a really nice material (below) where I liked the detail and could to some tight macro ...

"check material updates" IS ticked on, Just FYI

It is essentially functioning as if that is ticked off

Live viewer not auto-updating for material changes (modifications made on materials are not reflected in the Live Viewer until pressing send scene/update)
Cinema4D version 2023.1-[R5]

This was not happening for me in older releases, I have tried multiple of the revisions for 2023.1 but this seems ...

Trying to animate lights across a spline (hair render enabled on spline), using w coordinate and gradient -- typically what I do (without w coordinate) is just animate the uvw transform to shift/scale the gradient. Sadly with w coordinate... scaling doesn't seem to work -- unless there is a way to ...

Something that has been #1 on my wish-list for a long time... is an alpha channel / matte for the reflection pass when using 'render layer'.

Essentially (particularly on light-colored backgrounds) setting the reflection to 'add blend mode' is not enough. Part of the compositing is obscuring other ...

Awesome, perfect -- thank you for that link

I'll get it added as a wish-list item!

Sorry for the delay! I didn't notice I got a response, I came up with a few images to help explain.

Essentially (particularly on light-colored backgrounds) setting the reflection to 'add blend mode' is not enough. Part of the compositing is obscuring other reflections from behind the object as well ...

Hi,
new 2023.1 Alpha/beta gives you much more freedom on AOVs masking, but it is not clear to me why you cannot use Render Layer reflections + Custom AOV.

ciao,
Beppe

Oh that's awesome, great -- I will check it out!

But my reason is -- the part of the AOV I'm trying to utilize is the reflected ...

I know it's been discussed around here many times about wanting an alpha channel on 'render layer reflection' pass
So -- I am trying to set up a custom AOV that would do so... but sadly it partially breaks when Render Layer is on

Here is an image that I hope helps explain...

AOV reflection ...