A note : I thought I fixed this as the lime stayed illuminated when the lighning flashes - but with each "pass" the lime and cork actually grow darker.
My only work around at the moment is to do seperate renders and overlay the clips and do "lighten" blend mode in post.

Rendering a scene with "lightning" (driven by a simple octane light) which was working fine in look dev renders, but on final renders, when the lightning flashes, other lights lose their power.
So instead of adding light to the scene, its like it drawing all fill light.

All lights have shadow ...

I've intermittently (quite consistent now though) been getting an issue with my live viewer where "Updating" flashes constantly in the top left of the live viewer, and also "updated" down the bottom left of my C4D window. Rendering in the LV doesn't pass 1% as a result, and any updates I make, such ...

But there is still an issue? The shadows of the other objects still exist (and not accurate shadows at that). It should only be the shadow of the render layer, not the entire scene.
It’s like apart from simple planes, render layer shadows does not work/ is buggy, and shadow catcher isn’t any better ...

It just creates darker shadows on the contents inside.

Scene test file - https://we.tl/t-SWToIr4HXs

So this is something that has plagued me for a while.
When I do render layer - layer shadows on a more complex scene (ie, more than an object and a plane) - I find I get a lot of extra shadows from different objects, including self-shadowing (that arent ...

any answers to this question? This problem plagues me constantly with renders.

Weird - now it seems to have come back - not sure what happened there.

On the later versions of Octane, it seems the Particle Rendering tab on the Octane Obect Tag is missing. How do we now render particles? All of the online documentation suggests using the Particle Rendering - but this is no longer an option.

Any help?

I have a scene that I just cant get to render.
I have rendered it before, no problem, I just updated a few small parameters. I have a few cameras in the scene, for different angles at different intervals (ie, camera 3 is say for frame 300-400) etc.
I can render all cameras except except the first 1 ...