One way or another, this is a bug (i.e. it's not just related to your computer), of which there are many in the new version (for example, the plugin for importing FBX files does not work for me). Hopefully, these issues will be mostly resolved in the next update. Please write to the LW team about ...

Yes, the point is that you need to manually select this function again - this is how the Instance module settings are updated. This didn’t happen before - but now there are a lot of bugs of one kind or another, you have to live with it. At least for me it works this way.

Yes, indeed, I got the same result as you - but if I click on the DISTRIBUTION menu and select the RANDOM method - everything returns to normal. LW2023.

Everything right for me.

Post your scene.

I think the main message from all of this is that the new Lightwave team has taken it seriously. They have a lot of work ahead and in order to absorb some delays in improving the program, they agreed with Otoy to extend the free distribution of the Octane plugin for LW2023. For small tasks that do ...

Unfortunately I missed this part in first public showcase of the features and live demos of the LightWave 2023 Upgrade. Let's hope we get more information next time - in November, as far as I understand.

I think a new version of the LW needs to come out first, or the new owner company will give Juanjo access to the corrected and updated SDK so that he can integrate the new Octane features into the plugin.

From Discord channel https://discord.gg/the-future-of-lightwave

Andrew Bishop
Hi Everyone, over the coming few days I will try to answer as many questions as possible, but needless to say i am extremely happy that we are in the final stages of getting LightWave up and running again. We have huge ...

Yes, for some reason the plugin did not want to be activated for two days. After that, I discovered with great disappointment that the 4th version does not work with new video cards. And I realized once again what a cunning (to put it mildly) company I had a chance to deal with ))