Reply To: Final render looks different than preview render
@johnisland I have found what is causing this, but I do not know why. It is caused by the keyframes on the Particle Lifetime (where have I seen this before? I’m sure it was with this course…). Remove the keyframes and you’re fine, at least the render is the same as the preview…but now both are wrong…
I removed the Motion Blur and the Denoiser here for testing purposes and moved the black flag on the Colorramp (for Particle size) a bit to the left to compensate a bit for the now longer lifetime of the smoke.
I’d guess that this is indeed a bug, but the Particle system is being completey re-written as we speak, so I wouldn’t report it.