From 1ec481922c73674702e8740fd15b34d1a199f2f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SamGondelman <samuel_gondelman@alumni.brown.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 14:54:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] don't render particles without textures

---
 .../src/RenderableParticleEffectEntityItem.cpp            | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableParticleEffectEntityItem.cpp b/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableParticleEffectEntityItem.cpp
index 1a263fba79..d82cbc4623 100644
--- a/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableParticleEffectEntityItem.cpp
+++ b/libraries/entities-renderer/src/RenderableParticleEffectEntityItem.cpp
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ void ParticleEffectEntityRenderer::stepSimulation() {
 }
 
 void ParticleEffectEntityRenderer::doRender(RenderArgs* args) {
-    if (!_visible) {
+    if (!_visible || !(_networkTexture && _networkTexture->isLoaded())) {
         return;
     }
 
@@ -318,11 +318,7 @@ void ParticleEffectEntityRenderer::doRender(RenderArgs* args) {
     stepSimulation();
 
     gpu::Batch& batch = *args->_batch;
-    if (_networkTexture && _networkTexture->isLoaded()) {
-        batch.setResourceTexture(0, _networkTexture->getGPUTexture());
-    } else {
-        batch.setResourceTexture(0, DependencyManager::get<TextureCache>()->getWhiteTexture());
-    }
+    batch.setResourceTexture(0, _networkTexture->getGPUTexture());
 
     Transform transform; 
     // The particles are in world space, so the transform is unused, except for the rotation, which we use