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You guys know that Cinema4D natively don't have so good features to simulate particles. So people using other softwares like Houdini, realflow, etc just for simulating particles and bring them back into Cinema4D through Alembic. So after importing particles back into C4D ppl can't render them using Octane, nothing surprising, cuz Octane doesn't support Alembic particle type, thats sad.
Cmon aoktar, its time

As fulltime developer that's hard to learn another softwares. So it would be great to see a few sample scenes for your usage.

aoktar wrote:As fulltime developer that's hard to learn another softwares. So it would be great to see a few sample scenes for your usage.

I have attached .abc file with particles simulated in Realflow 10.
Just import them in c4d using that settings:

You will see the particles in viewport.

When importing particles in empty scene im using scene scale as 'Meters' or particles will be very small.
Also im using import points 'As Polygon Object' cuz another option is Thinking Particles or something like that, i dont know anything about this option.

It crashes on me with "particles" option. Can you check your file?

aoktar wrote:It crashes on me with "particles" option. Can you check your file?

Its fine for me, im using R18.

Ah yes it crashes for me when i tried to import Points 'As Particle Geometry'. Idk why
But then i trying 'As Polygon Object' its fine.

Now i will try simulate some particles in Houdini

UPD: it works for me with Houdini alembic. Try this file.

This tme it's ok. Thanks for file!
I suppose that you want particle rendering support as i did with xparticles. Isn't? This kind of support requires to direct access to particle data. And plugin processes and convert to a proper setup.

EDIT:
After some investigation on help/forum/etc.. i can say that will come soon... Even TP support.

Here is another alternative way with scatter object. But TP support is on table. I'll need some advice about workflow.

Hi, any update on this? Scattering help to control the size of particles but can't get that color data to work (plugin in vertex map houdini color data as diffuse)

jmd wrote:Hi, any update on this? Scattering help to control the size of particles but can't get that color data to work (plugin in vertex map houdini color data as diffuse)

Please follow your posts in a shorter timerange! I have a lot of topics to follow while working on plugins.
Could you please send your latest test scene with alembic? I'll check it.