Missing something, can't get particles to use scene materials

[rotanadan]

I've tried a few things, but the debris I am trying to make on the floor always renders orange. 

[shadowkiller]

Did you try applying the material to the tyflow object in the viewport?

[rotanadan]

I was avoiding doing that because it applies to all particles then, but doing multi/sub-object then giving all particles different mat ids seems to work. Thanks.