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This is strange, when I open your file with Blender 4.5 and LuxCore 2.10 on my MacBook and hit render I get caustics immediately :?
What hard- and software do you use?

Still I made another file with some changes:
- switch to BiDir with 4/4 Bounces only because Hybrid engine does not work with ...

When updating MacOS you might have to delete (user)/luxcorerender.org/ocl_kernel_cache folder before starting LuxCore.

A Metal version would be great indeed.

Good one!

I've encountered this too:

As I said, I cannot test it since the current LuxCoreUI doesn't work on my Mac.

I can only quote what was said in the link I posted above:

5) once you have all maps, you can load "render-bakedallobjects.cfg" in luxcoreui to do the rendering with the created bake maps (i.e. with only one ray per ...

Please do not replace emitter objects with different kinds of lights, try to keep it as it.

BlendLuxCore warning:
The scene contains a lot of light sources (1111), performance might suffer (each triangle of a meshlight counts as a separate light)
I don't know how light tracing actually works ...

Thanks @daros & @bartek_zgo for your contribution, very much appretiated!

FarbigeWelt wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 7:46 pm No. This behavior is quite old. I guess it never got fixed.

Some older report here.
I have not encountered this for a long time now.

bartek_zgo wrote: Thu Jun 05, 2025 2:12 pm about 30% of frames is broken.

You should open an issue on GitHub about this bug.

Good Job, the interior animation at 32sp looks great

About the issue with the complex glass scene I have no clue