@Dr-Sassi I adjusted the light intensity of the area light in the file in my first post. That’s all.

@Dr-Sassi Found a solution. I set the intensity to 1 instead of 18. That did the job.

@Dr-Sassi Isn't it possible to use an area light with this one?
I would like to use a mesh as area light so I have more control over volume light etc.

I have a wave of Area light which I want to animate.
I used it on a cloner with a Formula Field.
It looks great in the viewport but when I render the animation I don't see what I wanted to achieve.
gradient.c4d

I tried a water bump texture loop and it renders great exept the viewport render that doesn't show the animated texture.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/drlef1meejovoazonbty4/water.zip?rlkey=vohg57j5af8awin8obuken0w2&st=mv7qw51n&dl=0

@Dr-Sassi Also the texture in this file is empty.

@Dr-Sassi Sorry but the texture is empty.

Wow. Thanks. I’ll cec it as soon as possible. I work wit a 2022 MacBook Pro M1Max 32gb RAM.
Maybe too old to show the entire 3000 frames in the viewport.

I have an image sequence of 240 images in my redshift bump map. (Animated water)
The scene is 3000 frames long. How can I loop the animated material?
In the material loop is checked but in the viewport playback only 240 frames are visible

@silver-quit But I found a work around. Sometimes when you import a file and you see the color management is f**ed up and OCIO is set to DEFAULT just go to scene settings/color management (command-D) and change "$(DEFAULT" to "$OCIO"
This worked for me.