System Information
Operating system: Windows 10
Graphics card: Nvidia GTX 1070
Blender Version
Broken:
2.80, a0f2923fd821, blender2.7, 2019-03-08
Short description of error
With a particle system set to Render As: Collection, if the collection itself is set to not be rendered in the outliner, the particles will not show in the render.
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Create a particle system. Change it to Render As: Collection. Choose a collection with Render Visibility off. Render the image.
The attached file also demonstrates this bug.