Particle replacment upon render?

[walkinginspace]

Say u have a group of particles and at render time want to replace the particles with array objects. I know you can do this and have objects attached to particles....but can you have the objects just appear at render time.

steve

[evenflcw]

Not possible to my knowledge, unless maybe through 3rd party plugins (HD Instance). If your simply worried about openGL redraw I guess the cheapest (and cheesiest) answer is to just open up the Scene Editor, shift-select and hide all the clones.

[Dodgy]

HD instance is really really good for this stuff, I can't recommend it enough.

http://www.happy-digital.com/