making stardust particles with cube method

[Wantec]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1N4rAKvwts

I've been going step by step on this tutorial, but when I render to check, I see no visual changes as what's supposed to happen in video. 3:41 begins the particle portion of the tutorial.

[Wantec]

this is basically my problem
http://prntscr.com/lu0vfk
my particle renders, but does not display itself in front of my image, even though the particle's volume takes the shape of a cube.

[The Renderer]

Could you please say at which point exactly in the video you have the problem and what exactly that problem is? Also what do you mean with "my particle renders"? It doesn't look like they do on your screenshot?

Edit: Nevermind about that last part, I think I understand. The green stuff all over your shot are the particles and the rectangular thing is your background image, right? Still, please tell us the exact point in the video where it fails to work.

Also, just to make sure: Your particles *are* in front of the image plane, not behind it, right?

[Wantec]

the cube in which I created the particles are between the image and camera (image made with "import image as plane" method, yet normal planes work fine with the particles)

when you test render the image, it does not work. It's as if, regardless of viewing angle, the particle always stays behind the image planes.

I'm going to try out making a plane and have the image as a texture.

[Wantec]

didn't work either

[The Renderer]

Can you upload your .blend file somewhere so we can take a look at it? Otherwise I have no idea what the reason might be.

[Wantec]

i no longer have that file (it borked after I made an animation), but i'll create a new one cause I still have the problem.

[Wantec]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XXIfGHfA8BIcUPqyi1D0bYBmxmB-IH2i

[The Renderer]

Hmm. Thanks for the upload. I didn't know you were using Blender Render, though. Can't help you there, I have no experience with that. I can only confirm that it doesn't work for me either.

I strongly suggest you start to use Cycles, Blender Render is old and bad and won't even be in the new Blender version anymore. It's up to you, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8_QKQ4eKQ

[Wantec]

i guess i'll try to find how to get both transparency and proper rendering in cycles...and figure out how to make particles all over again. Thanks for letting me know about the fate of blender render.