How do you merge your particle animation with a regular animation, at the moment I can only render particles in the hardware render buffer.

Thanks in advance.

Usually you would use a compositing package to layer the particle effect in with the standard animation.
If you have Maya 2008 then you should be able to render particles with mental ray.

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Thanks alot for the answer.

Well I dont have maya 2008 but I guess I can create several layers and just merge them.

Aww I really want maya 2008, I guess this will be good training tho.