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Hi, is it possible to “bake” Xpresso particles?-I have a capsule shape, emitting particles. Is it possible to ” bake ” the particle emissions, so I can bring the object into another file and move my animation slider to manually adjust the particle emissions?-thank you-CZ

Hi Craig,

Thinking Particles have no option to be cached or baked. To a certain degree you can use MoGraph (Matrix) for that. Drag the TP-Group into it (like an Object for the Position) and cache it.

The following is more “brainstorming”, and nothing really which could be called “one size fits all”.

There are always sub-solutions thinkable. Not really “solutions, but you could create points and write the positions on these points (polygon object) points which aren’t needed become a huge distance to the camera, to be out of the way.

Python comes to mind, but certainly not simple

I have not explored it deeply enough to say anything with certainty, but based on the requirements of your project, perhaps Alembic might work for you… Again, you need to explore it, I can’t help really so far with it. Export Alembic and read it back in.

Sometimes I like to use particles in the MoGraph Tracer, and make the Tracer editable on the last needed frame. Again, not suitable for most projects.

All the best

Sassi

Thanks Dr. Sassi, Alembic?, not familiar -python is something that I have never used-I can’t learn everything, but I will look into Mograph Matrix, thanks for your help, Craig

Hey Craig,

I hope to see Alembic more in action in the future, it is an exchange format for animation. With that it is as well a great storage for animation information. The “Help Content” in C4D is rather a fragment than a good introduction to it, if you like to use it for Thinking Particles. I hope we see a little bit more soon :o)

As I can’t pay for all the plug ins in this world and keep track of those, even if they are just great, I can’t tell you how much advantage you get from
http://nitro4d.com/blog/donationware/nitrobake/
but so far I have gotten only positive opinions about his work. Perhaps you give it a shot. I wish to have all plug ins in a library, but as mentioned, not in my budget.

All the best

Sassi

Hi Dr. Sassi, thanks again. I am very familiar w/Nitro plugins. He is a good guy, great tech support. I have used some of his plugins, but forgot about this one-I will check it out-oh, and happy new year to you-Best, Craig

Hey Craig,

I hope that supports your project, and if you have a moment, later on, let us know what you think about the plug in so the thread has more value ;o)

Have a good one

Sassi

Alembic.

Just merge the attached file (after un-zipping); into an empty scene. Add a new group to the TP-Settings (Group.1); and drag that group into the field as shown in the image.

Check out the time options and that it can be scaled. This is just a little test. As Particles become handled as vertices for the time in the abc file, functionality is reduced to position only.

All the best

Sassi

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=S4rAhvp1SvQsGAv52srsVU

i haven’t used this, but remember seeing this a while back.  Might be worth looking into

http://aescripts.com/tp-partio/