I have created a scene of green ooze flowing onto a nurbs plane. The green ooze is a blobby surface particle. I also have smoke (steam) in the scene that I want to rise out of the blobby surface. I am new to Maya and particles so I have no experience rendering this out. I used the hardware render buffer and the image was way off. The nurbs plane appeared ontop of everything and the green ooze was behind it and very blurry. The smoke didn't appear at all.
I did a software render and everything looked great except there was no smoke there either.
I am on a Mac OS x 10.5.2
processor: 2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo
memory: 4 gb
Maya 2008
Thanks
Brad Stewart