I was wondering if anyone was kind enough to answer a couple of questions I have regarding carrara's particle emitter. 1. in picture 1 I used a particle emitter with a low particle count and as you can see, some of the particles have a weird glow. Kinda like one pixel on, one pixel off. Is there a way to fix that or is that how things are supposed to glow? 2. in image 2 and specially 3, you can see that some particles have some nasty different colored pixels that kinda take away from the effect. Is there a way to fix that?? In image 4, I upped the particle count and the glow intensity and the overall effect is great except that some particles have some pixels that really stick out because of their color and the outer particles have a bad glow because it looks like it alternates between one line of glow and one line of black. This image shows all the problems I'm having and as you can see, if the glow was "cleaner" it would definately do its job really well... also, sorry about the low quality jpg but as a bmp the file was a bit over a meg so... oh yeah, and i've seen a "particle shader" option but were do you use it?? color channel? mixer? glow? I never really saw how it impacts the particles so I was wondering if someone can tell me how to use it and what effect does it have?

Hi, Occasionally I've had the same thing occur and it seems to only effect the particle objects. There are three ways I've worked around it: change the camera angle slightly (works some of the time), "massage" the aura intensity and radius (reducing the radius seems to be best, works 85% of the time) change the output resolution of the file (works all the time). The problem seems to be most obvious at screen resolutions. Most of my images are created for print so I use a higher resolution. However, if you're only doing screen rez, adjusting the aura size will be your best bet. Mark