PaintFX and fields???

[anthonymcgrath]

you could set the render start and end frame appropiately and then edit the 'by frame' option in your render globals to 0.5 (every 1/2 frame). (this will give you twice the number of frames).
then you could try interleaving them outside of maya?

alternatively (and forgive me, thinking on my feet here!), render from frame1 and render every 2nd frame (this way you get 1,3,5,7,9,etc...).
then render again only start from frame 2 (so you get 2,4,6,8,etc...)
store these sequences in sep. folders and rename them so they both start at something like 0001onward.

next interleave these as normal. I'm pretty sure maya has a command line interleave command somewhere but have a look.

the only downside to this method is that your animation for your pfx will have to be twice as slow. (so if your using turbulence and its set to 2, set it to 1).

forgive me here, as I mentioned before, I'm thinking on me feet!
I hope this has made you think a bit more laterally on the matter and make sure you get back to me if any of these techniques work!!

ant
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