Maya hardware particle problem

[frack]

Hi, I'm trying to render out a sprite particle object in maya hardware, however its not rendering out. How do I fix this?

[thnkr]

There's hardly  anything you could be doing wrong. Is you hardware up to it? Do you see the sprites in shaded mode in the viewport? Does it work in the hardware render buffer?

[frack]

They display in the render buffer but nada for rgb or alpha in the hardware render mode. I put in a cube to see if it would render that but still nothing, however I started a new project, created a cube and it rendered out there...strange. I've got an i7 processor, so Im guessing it should be up to the task. I mapped an image sequence onto the particles and put in expressions to randomize the sequence across individual sprites,

stars.spriteNumPP = rand (1,15);

if (stars.spriteNumPP >=10)

stars.spriteScaleYPP =stars.spriteScaleXPP = rand (500,1100);

else

stars.spriteScaleYPP=stars.spriteScaleXPP = rand (100,300);

did it in one go, not sure if that affected it. Im following the gnomon outerspace environments dvd.

[artist-fx]

ADD PER PARTICLE COLOR ATTRIBUTE FOR SPRITE PARTICLE  AND PUT RGB VALUES 1 1  BECAUSE BY DEAFULT  MAYA WII ADD LAMBERT1 MATERIAL TO ALL NODE YOU CREATED ITS COLOR IS PREMULTIPLIED BY ALPHA SO U NEED TO INCREASE ITS RBB VALUE TO 1(color red = 1,color green = 1,color blue = 1)

[frack]

I checked this but it makes no difference oddly enough

[frack]

Got it to render out in the hardware render buffer, rock n roll