[Calamitychaos]

Sorry I should have been clearer:

[calamitychaos] ” Drag this into your target doc”

With Layer 1 selected (so you see the bounding box and all your layers selected), hover your mouse over your document and you should see the cursor change to a triangle. Outside the bounding box the cursor should be an arrow and inside the bounding box a triangle. Click and drag the document into your other document.
Re-reading my answer implies to drag the radio button from the layer palette into the new doc—my fault!

Just a note—I tend to collect the layers into a single layer before drag/drop just to keep things organized but it’s not necessary…

I’m by no means an AI expert, I normally just use AI to convert a doc to a legacy version for 3D, and everything else I’ve learned more or less by accident!

Hope this works for you.

[Calamitychaos]

Try this:
In your target doc, create a new empty layer.
In your source doc, add a new empty layer and drag all your layers into it so you’ve got “Layer 1” and inside are all the layers you want to move

Select Layer 1 (click the little radio button and you should see the bounding box and all layers selected) Drag this into your target doc—note that when you click on your source layers to drag them, the cursor should be a triangle shape rather than an arrow shape.

Does that work for you in CS2? I can take screenshots if you need ’em…

[Calamitychaos]

What version are you using Aharon? I’m using CS1 and I thought that technique (albeit simplistic!) worked for me a few weeks back…I’ll check it when I get to work and get back to you.

[Calamitychaos]

I’m not in front of AI at the moment, but I think you can open both docs then just drag the layer from the layer palette of one and drop into the other. I’ll check that at work tomorrow if no one else chimes in.

[Calamitychaos]

I think this is a great idea. Although the huge array of free emitters more than suit my current purposes, it’s nice to know there’s a “next level” available. These appear to be very well done and I’d be happy to support the efforts by purchasing in the future as my needs change. Alan, thanks for all you do with this terrific software and I love seeing the level of work constantly being improved by yourself, Elvis, Aharon and many others out there. Very appreciative of your efforts!

[Calamitychaos]

At the Maxon site is the 6.5 plugin:
https://www.maxon.net/index_e.html

click on Downloads/Updates/Plugins

[Calamitychaos]

A kind user just made some shaders available over at c4d cafe. It’s free to register there…
https://www.c4dcafe.com/

This is the thread:
https://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=8820&hl=

[Calamitychaos]

I’m too inexperienced with PI to suggest a method for your project using this terrific software, but if you have After Effects there’s a tutorial called Turning Titles Into Smoke (search for author Tobias Lind).
I haven’t tried it, although it looks straightforward enough. You’ll have to make some adjustments to get smoke turning into titles obviously…