particle renderer mental final gathering

[jamination]

is it possible to render the particle renderer with final gathering in a beauty pass, using final gathering or ambient inclusion, you can see the bounding box of the particle volume block out incoming rays.

[SpookyMunky]

not sure, have you enabled enough transparency ray depths ?.. under optimization you really want quite a high refraction and due to that combined value... like refraction set to hundreds if not thousands if you are wanting decent fg + ao using particles hehe, enough to cover every one onscreen at the same time . Your particles shouldn't really be taken into account with fg / ao tho imho... atleast not the full amount ?. I'd either use ray switch to make them invisible to either or adjust your point clouds visability settings / render out particles as a seperate pass.