As we payed for BF Octane Deal this year as well to be able to use Lightwave Version of Octane - maybe there is another chance at a tribute build for LW?

Maybe most have moved on, but I am sure there are some users left, that still use LW / Octane daily like myself.

Any news about the free Lightwave plugin? It's black friday so people (like me) would like to get a heads up before renewing the license for the Lighwave plugin.

Thanks!

I can confirm the white balance is very different. Everything is rendering with a redish tint on it, compared to a much more neutral look with the old Octane Version. I saw C4D users complaining about it too, so it might be some core problem.

I have to use the white balance setting to get rid of ...

Anything new about the AI Light Problem, I encountered? (my post from Monday)
Could it be a drivers or system issue. Here it seems work fine even with 30x30x30 instances. What GPUs and NVIDIA drivers do you have?

Thanks,
-Juanjo

Totally missed your reply, sorry. I have 472.39 Studio Drivers ...

Anything new about the AI Light Problem, I encountered? (my post from Monday)

Having a problem - AI Light Option not working (as expected):
When Adding (Direct Lighting) Kernal, and enable AI Light, the system freezes, sometimes crashes.
Keeps hanging at 1 sample in IPR, does not start the render in Scene Render.

Works perfectly fine in the previous version OR when I turn ...

Thank you Juanjo, very much appreciated!

Don't get me wrong. I am thankfull for what we got with the development of the LW Octane Plugin. I love it. It is my tool of choice. But I am sure it could have been going on for a bit more time - I mean, it is 1,5 years after LW latest release. It is not like it is abandoned for 10 years (or 5).
I ...

Thanks again for helping with the troubleshooting.

I have found the solution to the problem now. It was the window in the scene. I made the dusty window framing with a material mixer node. For the edge I used Octane Dirt Shader. The result seems to be a very reduced amount of rays / samples inside ...

Oh, and the bottom is 1 big quad poly....and tiling it has no changing effect.