What happened to the xparticles shader in R20 and C4DtoA 2.4.2.1? I want to pass the color information over to the standard shader, but can´t seem to find the xparticles shader

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

The xparticles shader was not touched and I don't see any problems here. Is the shader not available in the network editor at all? Maybe your installation is corrupted. Do you have any error/warning in the log (console)? Are you on Windows or Mac? Can you see the normal_displacement or vector_displacement shaders in the editor?

As a workaround, you can use a user_data_rgb shader instead of xparticles. Set the attribute to xp_color.

[toxicbueffel]

Hi Peter,

thanks for the fast answer! unfortunately xparticles shader is not available in my network. i will reinstall arnold, but user_data_rgb did the trick already.

[peter.horvath6V6K3]

I wonder what the log shows when you render a scene. This sounds like the c4d specific shader library is not loaded, which could lead to other problems.