I simply needed an option to render pure particles without geometry with my own shadin options.
Maybe I will share some code in upcoming weeks :)

soon new beta round ;)
- automatic preview scene from "selected" (maybe picked) object
- change uv for specific preview / displacement / hdri ------ all options are persistent

-- future features --- 
- backburner support (depends..) or postponed rendering
- dock-able window, 
- installer / uninstaller

- various settings
- head over to scripts and try it for yourselves 

new base mesh  ---- soon in scripts for free

just add button to use only one strip and new primitive is ready for all of you :)

I've made it to february beta. Anyone interested in testing, give me a message

Release got a bit postponed, because of added render to texture option. But I'm 90% there :) . just few tweaks

texture is calculated from UV space, so it will be more detailed then the vertex colors, but results are based on 1:1 calculations  (what you see is what you get)

Just small progress. Plugin is almost ready for public testing, just few more performance tweaks.
Now you can assign vertex color only for specific channel, normal color or inverted.
Color by distance to pivot/ node (spherical distribution), or by spline (distance to closest point on spline)
color by world coordinates (world normal), dust map (currently without object occluding), AO (brutal faking AO by same approach as dust map)
color by image (maybe I will be adding support for 3ds max's noise maps and so on)
any suggestions would be appreciated

- more progress .. color by spline now works along-side of curve control
- next thing is to give the user an ability to set custom threshold , and he can choose if it would be calculated automatically (same as now) or set it explicitly and cut down on time a bit, (maybe some automatic approximation)