Freeze Frame

[Mylenium]

I don’t think you can do that since the normal particle systems’ time is tied to C$Ds scene time and not independent like in TP. dunno exactly, as I’m just re-learning C4D and thus I’m pretty much a noob myself (one who knew a bit about C4D a while back but then Alzheime took all this beautiful knowledge away) ;O).

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Sneakerpimp]

Try making a duplicate of your particles and then on the frame you want to freeze – click on the “make objects editable”
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[Adam Trachtenberg]

[sneakerpimp] “Try making a duplicate of your particles and then on the frame you want to freeze – click on the “make objects editable”
That would freeze the particles, but it doesn’t solve the restarting problem. Maybe you could render the particles in a separate pass and do the freeze in post?

[Lennart Wåhlin]

Create the emitter (A) and set it up as you want it. Duplicate it two times, making B and C.
Roll up to the freeze point. Let’s say it is frame 50. Press “C” on emitter B. Thats the freeze state.
In emitter C. Adjust the start and end emition to + 50 frames. C is now the restart emitter.

By using Display Tags on the emitters you can now render the behaviour:)
So the first 49 frames you see Emitter A. Then for frame 50 to nth frame you see B (freeze).
And finaly from nth frame and out you see C.
Since they are all different objects you can have different colors and deformer and such for each stage.

Cheers
Lennart

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Ah, very clever!