I will, daverave...thanks!

Well that's a disappointment. Thanks for clearing this up for me. I guess I'll have to figure out another way to get the effect I want.

Checking in. I haven't figured this out yet - mental ray still renders all sprites as the same color instead of a mix of the three colors supplied by the image sequence.

@ honestdom:

Appreciated! The image sequence is working from what I can tell. I'm attaching my .ma file with a sequence of three images. This is a stripped down scene, with only the elements...

Thanks for the reply, dave.

That's the exact technique I've been using. I got it from a gnomon pixie dust sprites tutorial. It works well...just not when using mental ray to render. Mental ray...

They will all look the same in the viewport (multiple colors) regardless of the frame number, because their dynamics have been turned off. Static field of particles.

But if I render a different...

Hi folks.

So I'm trying to get mental ray to render a bunch of STATIC particles that are no longer dynamic. I have assigned a lambert shader to them, with a sequence of seven images, generated...