ckeck that is lighted in window/relationship editor/light linking/light centric.
Maya hardware dont render particle clouds.
Also the particles could be in a layer that is deactivated.
Also check what camera are you rendering, could be another one.
It shows in the list.
I use mental Ray, not Hardware, and I am sure MR rendered it last time in the other (original, where nparticles were created) scene, so why doesn't it do same here?
I don't use layers so this scene has only master layer.
All renders are done through CosmicCam (the preferred camera) and everything in the bottom left viewport is seen, with the exception of the particle cloud.
Last edited by SilverFeather; 21-12-2011 at 03:58 PM.