Those are both really good ideas. I've been messing around with the hair and it looks like with the dynamics off it can potentially give me what I want once I learn all the parameters available. The...

I'm modeling the shape of a character that I want to be covered in pine needles in order to make it look as if it's made of said needles (and some other random litter, but that's outside the scope of...

If it ultimately comes to file swapping, I wouldn't be opposed. But, anyway, yeah, caching the particles to disk didn't solve the problem. Oh, I'm using Maya 2008 Unlimited.

It's definitely set up that way.

I'd just like to say thank you for the help, by the way. The degree project crunch is upon us and you are most definitely my saviour.

I have a problem with particles. I have a volume emitter emitting particles along an axis, and I want to set the start frame of the particles to frame -50. Everything seems to work fine in Maya; the...