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I tried the latest production and beta releases and I noticed that every time I click on any setting from the Universal Light it lags massively, I'm stalking about 3 to 8 seconds the program freezing, is this the expected performance or is it some kind of bug were it re-uploads the scene constantly?

The scene that I'm doing only contains a single shoe model not even 100mil polys and some displacement..

I'm running 20.0.751
Linux Pop!_OS 22.04lts
550 Nvidia Drivers

Are you using Modify? Is it only gradient or any parameter you adjust?

Please PM me your scene and we can have a look.

Note that Universal is not a special light type and added only for convenience in Houdini - especially the Modify tab. Because it is layer based it will degrade some UI performance when gradients are used, this is a known issue and we will try see if we can optimize somehow. The other original lights are much more light weight and may be better suited for some cases.