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# 1 18-01-2010 , 04:16 AM
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Must Use Maya Hardware Renderer for Particle Dynamics?

Hi there

I'm trying to do some dynamics/particle instancing in Maya 2008 specifically making a snow blizzard / rainfall. I ran the animation and then tried rendering an example frame using Maya Software and Mental Ray but I could not see the particles on my monitor. Then I read on some Maya forum that for particles/dynamics, you MUST use Maya Hardware rendering. When I changed to Maya Hardware rendering, the Script Editor says my graphics card doesn't support the render. Does this mean I can't do dynamics/particle rendering until I get a new graphic card ? I did dynamics/particle instancing in the open source Blender 3D software also installed on my PC and it renders fine, no problems. How can I get around this ? Thks!

Ezani