Cinema 4D Quick Tip #54 - Emit Particles Along a Path (Project File on Patreon)

[@zach666.mp4]

Great video - at around :30 seconds in when the force is applied you can either hold shift and siumulate force > field force or you can drag it into the emitter in the Include tab

[@EffingtonCouldBe]

Keep it up - so quick, so clever. Very helpful.

[@xyzmentor]

Thank you! ✌️

[@cornerofthemoon]

Thanks for this. This will help for a project I'm working on now.

[@xyzmentor]

Thats awesome! 🙌

[@urielboaventura3922]

Bro, that was helpfull simple and fast. Just on point.

[@xyzmentor]

Thank you, glad it helped! 🙌

[@MrScottyZA]

Thanks dude! quick to the point tutorial

[@dinoabawag9140]

Thanks for this. I tried it and it worked. Although when I made the object a rigid body so that it can be collected into a bottle, it didn't follow the helix path. Is it possible to do this?

[@olgapolyakova8472]

THANK YOU!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@xyzmentor]

🙏

[@maaxeduardo]

never stop to teaching bud!

[@malmul_official]

How to convert this projeck to fbx ? ,

[@OmniVisionElite]

Does this work in the new 2024 particle system? Would love to se an updated turotial!

[@juliemotmans7563]

just use the simulation ---) particels (legalcy) -----)emitter (particers) and you get the old one that they use in the vid

[@romuk3092]

Thank you my mentor 🙇‍♂

[@posebukse]

Awesome, simple and elegant. How would you solve it to have the particles spiraling around the spline as well? I can't for the life of me combine multiple forces like Rotation and Turbulence with Field Force, it just doesn't work. Tried a helix wrapped around a spline, but that doesn't look right either. Would gladly pay for the solution.

[@jbrashfx]

I'm sure you already found the answer to this - but you'd just create all the forces you want and drag them into the "include" tab on your emitter. They should all work perfectly 👍

[@pengronyeh6180]

is there a way to let the particles disappear as soon as they leave the spline?

[@rainman9792]

Hi thanks for the Tutorial, I need to have an object in the middle of the Spline so the Particles will hit the object and move along the curve, I dont know why it's not working for me when I add a rigid body tag to my emitter or Cloner! can you help me please?

[@Taranis_The_Third]

Brilliant channel

[@xyzmentor]

Thank you! 🙏

[@438maddy]

It was really helpful, i need to know how can we fill a jar with this path ,emitter and rigid/collider

[@DanielDavis-zn2gs]

I believe you would have to bake out the emitter as alembic (or possibly add them to a fracture object?) to turn the particles into objects, then use a bullet tag that triggers when the objects are near the jar either using velocity peak, xpresso, or possibly on collision if that lets you set up an "activation zone". So many cool things can be done by layering baked animations and additional simulations. You can even bake the whole thing out then delete, keyframe, or deform individual objects in the jar so that when it rests the gaps spell out a word or logo

[@bbbbambi]

How can I do the opposite and have it go up from the bottom? I ask because I've tried everything else and it doesn't work

[@Pathfinder_tua]

Theres a christmas tree tutorial that goes from bottom to top. Search for it look for cinema 4d xmas tree. Its a yellow background with spheres emitted

[@sandiafui1635]

Dude, I hope you still need this. I just figure it out how to do it the opposite way. go to Field Force--> Object --> at the Spline field, go to Direction --> Uncheck or check the box of Invert Direction.

[@잔나]

What do I have to do to come up the other way?

[@afroenrike]

Excelent 👍

[@gamma517]

I have not been able to get the emitter to work on a modeled object as opposed to a primitive.

[@DanielDavis-zn2gs]

Have you selected "show objects" in the emitter?

[@creativeplustv]

Thank`s!

[@philippeLebret]

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[@davidcastaneda6111]

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[@olgapolyakova8472]

Hey! I also wanted to ask if it’s possible to create 4-5 emitters following spline in one project? Because I tried and created another field force for second emitter and it just stopped working. Thank you for your answer!

[@xyzmentor]

Hi, In the "Include" tab of the emitter you can set up which field forces you want to be included / excluded for the particular emitters. Or you could simply skip that and use one force field for all the emitters.

[@homerhuang7532]

How to solve object overlap

[@DanielDavis-zn2gs]

I think you can set the simulation as a volume using "particle system" instead of an emitter. Could also include them in mograph somehow (possibly with a connect and/or fracture object) and use the "push apart" effector. Alternatively, turn the variation on the emitter right down until you can space them apart equidistant and aren't touching. Then add randomness back in with more forces and effectors like turbulence or displace

[@KidCold]

wow! thanks brooo

[@xyzmentor]

Welcome 👍

[@김영인아카이브]

Thank you Thank you

[@wonyhwang1282]

Love this music

[@xyzmentor]

I like it too👌

[@anton_petukhov]

Thank you my mentor ( 2 )

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

Looks like they took away the ability in 2025 to attach objects to emitter

[@PangaeaVisualizations]

no, go to particle legacy under it... there's emitter legacy works just like this