Particle effects are great – if you know how to do them. This tutorial by Rohand Dalvi explains instancing, shading and motion blur for the renderers Octane and Redshift 3d . In addition, you receive the files for both renderers as a gift:
File for Octane File for Redshift
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Another tutorial for Houdini shows how to assign colours to particles from the moment they are created, which they retain throughout their lifetime.
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