I don't think anyone is working on the Lightwave Octane plugin anymore. Am I wrong?

Ah. Understood.
Thank you, sir.

Thanks for looking at these.
If you need more info, please let me know.

The FFX settings on each of the braids are slightly different, but only in terms of fiber density and minor styling changes.

Logs and settings attached...

We're currently rendering a scene that takes 1 minute to render, but 10 minutes to "update" between frames.
Granted, the scene uses FFX which may play a (large) role in that, but I'm wondering what other factors determine the update speed?

I've tried searching the forum but the "search" feature ...

Although it may not solve Lightwave specific issues, I routinely reference the C4D Octane manual and have found it to be very helpful. Most of the information translates well enough.

That's fantastic. Thanks Lewis!

Update -- Exporting from LW with the "Update Light Parameters" unchecked gave us an ORBX that had all of the lighting as well as the animating geometry, however the scene is unusable without the animated lighting effects. Did I mention that even most of our non-animating lights were not appearing in ...

We'll give that a shot, but the scene is very dependent on animated lighting. Things flickering and flashing, etc.

Hi, any and all help is appreciated. I'm on a deadline (of course!)

I've exported my lightwave scene to ORBX, but when I load it in Standalone most of the lights don't appear until the last frame of the animation. The animation itself seems intact and even the image sequences used in the materials ...