Thinking Particles Errors

[joshclos]

We have been having problems using Thinking Particles as an emission source. It does not simulate properly in deadline when submitted to our render farm. They sim fine locally but in a scene with multiple sources (some geometry, some TP particles) it will ignore the TP sources but the rest will sim fine. The workaround so far is to use pflow.

There is another issue involving TP (regardless of local or network sim) when the source is set to use particle shape, I receive an error stating "PG[Group01] of system [Thinking001]: This particle system cannot be used in 'Use Particle Shape' mode - the shape cannot be retrieved!" This error seems to occur while using any of the Shape nodes (StdShape, MetaShape, ImplicitShape, GeomInstance) but the error does not occur while using "ObjToParticle." My workaround so far has been to use the "Sphere, custom size" mode.

Thanks,

[georgi.zhekov]

Hello,

I have managed to reproduce both of those issues and I have logged them in our bug tracker.

Thank you for reporting them.