Morphable particles

Oso3D

Particle bundles, streams or sheets of objects that can be manipulated with dials, is useful for a variety of special effects, precipitation, water streams, and so on.

Iray can let you do some really cool stuff applying shaders to random stuff, but so can 3delight... a stream of glass-shaded dots can look like water, or shards of ice, or... whatnot.

Soldiers of Serpio, for example -- despite being created with special (and nifty) shaders, the fact that it's a highly configurable stream of shapeable blobs makes it great for Iray, as water, dirt, fire, egg sacks, you name it.

So... bring on the particles!