X-Particle Groups and Octane

[blastframe]

Hi,
I am not able to get Octane to render Sprites that are in X-Particle Groups. They render fine without Groups, but I need to Groups to get Sprite variations.

My setup:
I have an Emitter distributing particles randomly to two groups:

and two Sprites Objects creating geometry for the two Particle Groups

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This is what they look like in the Viewport.

When I render, I can't see anything. I have tried caching the geometry, but it doesn't work.

When I turn on 'Enable Particle Engine' I can see my particles, but not the different sprites

Any ideas on how to get my Sprite Objects to render with Groups? Thank you.

** NOTE: The Groups DO render in the Viewport and the Picture Viewer with Octane Renderer, but not Octane's Live Viewer **

[blastframe]

Okay, I kind of got it working, but it's not working great. It starts with nothing in the scene, but when I interact with the Object tags, it seems to load the sprites. I don't know what fixed it of these steps:

• Turn off 'Enable Particle Engine'
• Add Object Tags to each of the Sprite Objects
• Fiddle with Mesh no
• Turn on 'Check geometries'

[aoktar]

particle engine is still experimental and just generates sphere from particles by direct access. That's fastest method due this approach. But don't use it here. Just use render instances and a object tag over XP System. Or use 2.23.1 RC4 with automatic parameter in geometries. All is movable in LV with this parameter.

[blastframe]

Thank you! I will try both methods.