Recently I tried to make particle objects real in the new Blender particle system but couldn’t. It doesn’t seem to be supported yet, so until it is, I made a little Python script to do just that.
It converts duplicated particle objects of particle systems which visualization type is set to “Object”, to real objects. Those converted objects are either linked duplicates of the original object, or they get their own data, as user choice. I also wanted to support the visualization type “Group”, but access to the grouped particle objects doesn’t seem to be supported yet by Blender Python.
The script looks for particle systems on the active object only. After the operation the converted objects are selected and also part of a group for easy access.
Here’s the script. Put it in your Blender scripts or custom scripts folder and access it from the scripts window under “Object” or from the Object/Scripts menu entry in the 3D view menu header, menu entry “Make Particle Objects Real”.
object-make-partobs-real.py version 0.1
