How do I prevent Blender from exporting the emitter object

[greg.thoman]

I'm just experimenting with emitting particles as objects, but I don't want the emitter to render. I can't find a way for octane not to render that plane.
Any suggestions?

[Nemo]

Make it 100% transparent?

[greg.thoman]

Wouldn't that make all the children particles are transparent also?

[Nemo]

No idea but that actually sounds probable. Would you be able to hide it off screen somewhere without goofing things up?

[greg.thoman]

Unfortunately, no. the emitter has to be where I am introducing particles to the screen, which happens to be right in the center. bummer.

[john]

You can assign different materials to your emitter and your particles. Unfortunately, making an object completely transparent seems to cause Octane to randomly reassign my visible materials the next time I reopen the scene. I was able to remove an emitter from a boids simulation by baking the particles and then deleting the geometry of the emitter in edit mode. However, this doesn't seem to work with other (non-boids) particles. Deleting the geometry -even after baking- repositions the particles.