If you HAD to use particles, set the particle type to streak and hardware render it. Then, tweak it out with combustion or after effects.

If you aren't restricted to particles for whatever reason...

That's really good man. I like it. Each piece of detail you added serves a purpose. Fantastic.

Just showing an update here.
made a little more progress on the mouth area.
http://www.joshball.com/forums/simplymaya/a8/images/index.jpg

Heh heh, yeah Kurt. I guess the lighting was really just a sub-concious ploy on my part to cover up the fact that the face kind of sucks. One area I haven't really touched on much is the mouth.. Its...

Thanks Roman!

Its actually a game character. This model comes out to around 20k polys when i convert it. Good for the cinematic shots.
But with it being mayan subD's i can easily bring it down to...

True. True.

Model I started a couple days ago. Would have been finished had it not been for a pesky non-manifold problem that I spent nearly two days tracking down,:banghead: then once fixed totally messed up...

How many have used Shatter extensively?

It kind of sucks.(IMHO) Anybody had any luck getting higher-res cracks and breaks?

Anyone know if this feature has been improved upon at all in 4.5?

Great!
Good to see a/w making more use of the shelves this time around.

I once heard someone say to expand your subd nodes in the hypershade and delete the blind data nodes. Apparently its supposed to speed up the process esp. in poly proxy mode. Mind you, i don't really...