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Sorry for this n00b question but I'm new to particles in Maya, so maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I've created an emitter that shoots little spheres, I assigned an Octane material to them, but they won't show up in the rendering. Do I have to do something special?

Anyone? Please help, I really need to sort this out!

Maya menue modify>convert>nparticles to polygons

Does that means you cannot render the actual particles?

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But how about the instances? I keep reading about particles and instances, but when I convert the nParticles to Mesh, the result is one big mesh that includes all the particles. I don't get it...?

JimStar, I cannot open your scene... Well, I can open it, but Maya freezes...

To create particle instances for Octane select a piece of polygon geometry and go to the particle or nParticle menu and select instancer. I'm away from my machine right now so can't go step by step but if you use Maya help and look up particle instancing it should tell you all you need to know.

T.

TBFX wrote:To create particle instances for Octane select a piece of polygon geometry and go to the particle or nParticle menu and select instancer. I'm away from my machine right now so can't go step by step but if you use Maya help and look up particle instancing it should tell you all you need to know.

T.

I did what you said, but apparently Instancer can only be used on particles, not on geometry...

Q-Games wrote:I did what you said, but apparently Instancer can only be used on particles, not on geometry...

Yes. You use it to instance geometry to particles. If you select geometry before you click to open the instancer it will preLoad the geo into the instancer for you. But you can just create an empty instancer and then add geometry to it.

T.