rendering particles + geometry

[Jozvex]

Well there are at least two options:

Usually the workflow for hardware rendered particles is to render them on their own pass and then composite them with the geometry-and-everything-else pass later in a compositing package.

But, something you might have missed is that three types of particles (Cloud, Blobby and Tube) can actually be rendered in a normal software renderer. You can tell because they have the letters SW after their name in the list.

Also, if you instanced a tiny cube (for example) onto your particles, then they'll still look like tiny dots but will render in the software renderer or Mental Ray.

[Hollow Out]

That tiny cube instance idea sounds awesome. I'm going to try that now. Thanks.

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