I'm trying to create a cycles material to make a particle flare out when it dies in a collision with another particle using Blender 2.72a. I've managed to get particles to attack and kill other particles using Boid physics, but getting the dead particles to do anything besides disappear or sit th...

I am working on cloth simulation, and I have a lot of test-and-edit cycles to do. But on my machine the test cycles - where the simulation is baked - takes too much time. It's a simple simulation, but there are lots of frames to bake, with a highly subdivided mesh. I don't need distributed comput...