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Matt Leishman
10-24-2006, 08:22 AM
are there any limitations in maya 7 as far as not being able to software render more than just the first created particle object?

I've created more than one s/w cloud particle object, but only the first one will render. at first i thought it was something in my scene ... so i opened a fresh empty scene and made 2 poly planes, animated them translating, and then made one an emitter, then made the second one an emitter. after letting them sim and spit out their cloud particles, i find that still only the first created cloud particle object renders.

has anybody else seen or heard of this? and if so do you know how to fix it? thanks for any info y'all might have.

-m
Matt Leishman
10-25-2006, 03:50 AM
really? nobody out there has experienced what i'm experiencing?
Aikiman
10-25-2006, 03:59 AM
personally, no but have you applied a new volumetric particle shape to your particles? (instead of using the default one)
Matt Leishman
10-25-2006, 03:27 PM
hey thanks for the reply aikiman.

and the weirdest thing happened. I opened my file last night after leaving it for a while just to see if i could tinker around and get it working, and it was working! so i guess we can chalk that one up to that particular maya session being just a tad buggy. i'll have to remember that the next time I experience something as strange as this incident ... save, close, restart computer, re-open - voila!!
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