Hi Everyone!
I'm a newbie, and haven't really been using Maya long. (still flipping through my manual to find simple things)

BUT
I have a question.
I read that you'd have to render a scene without any particles first, then use a composite method to add the particles later. I'm using mental ray to render the "ball" and the water particles dont show up. I used Hardware render mode to render the particles, but the quality is not nearly as good as the mental ray. I noticed an option for the particles called "mental ray" in the attributes of the particles and under "flags" default selected was "Derive from Maya". Deselecting this allows the other options to be edited like "visible" etc. Will this allow the particles to be rendered in mental ray batch renders?

Thanks for the speedy response!

Tim