[HtoA] Instanced Geometry Particles not rendering

[willfenn97]

Yo,

I'm very new with HtoA and Houdini in general, was trying something new today by instancing some geometry (bullet cartridges) on particles emanating from a grenade explosion.

These show up fine in the viewport:

https://i.imgur.com/MYIIgAZ.png

But they do not render in the output at all - no errors come up in the console, and it's not like they're missing shaders or something, they're completely invisible

I've tried removing all instance nodes, and the particles themselves render fine just as spheres / volumes. Does HtoA actually support particle instancing? I've looked all over the knowledgebase and there's very little information on this / none at all.

Any help would be appreciated