CGTalk - particle rendering!

clarix

09-10-2003, 04:16 AM

Hi guys,

I have an emitter and I instanced an object to the particle. Now when I did a tst render some frames just didnt render the particles and some frames did. any idea?????

thanks

stallion151

09-10-2003, 04:57 AM

more info.

Jozvex

09-10-2003, 11:12 PM

A good first step when having trouble batch rendering particles, is to create a Particle Disk Cache. What that does is store the particle motion for each frame in a sequence of files, so that when you render, Maya doesn't need to dynamically calculate things, it just reads the info out of the Cache.

To create a Cache:

From within the Dynamics menu set, go to Solvers > Create Particle Disk Cache

Then try rendering again after the cache is made! Oh, and the cache will also mean that you can now scrub your time slider backwards/forwards and the particles will just play like any other animation, no calculation required.

:thumbsup:

clarix

09-11-2003, 04:15 AM

thanks Jozvex

I guess that will work

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