i created a scene that has hardware particles but the rest of the sceen has to be done with maya software renderer, how can i render the particles with maya's software renderer?
You can only render software particles in the software renderer. Software particles like cloud or blobby or tube. All other partikles must be rendered in the hardware renderer and then composited in.
Hope this helps.-James
I've been told that rendering HW particles in SW is undocumented, but possible.
I'll try and find specifics, then post back here.wes
If you figure that out, share. I have never heard of such a thing. Though I really don't see how hard it could be to just intergrate them. Would it really be that difficult to write particles like the hardware ones into the renderer? I don't know much about programming so maybe it would be haha.
Well yes it is a bit hard to do it so that the reandertimes are acceptable.
haha yea, good point.