Particle objects

 
 
 

A particle object is a collection of particles that share the same attributes. You can create particle objects containing a single particle or millions of particles. Each particle in a scene belongs to some particle object. An overview of how you create particle effects follows:

Creating particles

You can create particles several ways:

Set display attributes

You change the way particles look with several techniques:

Animate the particles

You can animate particle motion several ways:

Render the particles

Rendering is the final step to creating particle effects. Depending on the render type you select, you render the particles with hardware rendering or software rendering. See Choose how particles render.