Pink particles?

Hi, i’ve still been using 2.49 lately, slowly moving over to 2.5, today I thought i’d do some particle tests (actually a particle material tutorial).

I’ve made the most basic of particle systems, added a basic halo material with a cloud texture, turned the shadow off the default lamp.

Next I render the scene and half the particles are pink!

Eh?

Ahah…

Yes, I forgot, adding a texture defaults to having ‘Color’ set and a default magenta colour…

Silly me…