in 2025, can you no longer use metaball with emitters or cloners?

[atomician]

In version 2023, I can drop an emitter onto a metaball generator, and it "metaballifies" the emitted objects.

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If I something similar in the new particle system in 2025, it doesn't work:. Here, I add the emitter and particle group as a child of metaball.
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and here I also add the cloner as a child of a metaball:
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I know I can create a legacy emitter, but surprised that metaball no longer works with emitters - I used to be able to create some interesting effects. Would be interested to know if there's a go-forward plan to allow metaball and emitters to work together?

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi atomician,

In 2025 the Standard Particle Emitter is now the "Emitter (Legacy)" - as you mentioned) and it works as before
CV4_2025_drs_25_PAlg_01.c4d
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With the new Particle Emitter, the Emitter is not the "storage" of the resulting particles, it is the Group.
CV4_2025_drs_25_PAlg_11.c4d

All the best

[atomician]

Nice! I knew about the legacy emitter but I wanted to see if it still worked on the new type! Thank you for your example project, that really helps!

[Dr. Sassi]

Thanks for the reply, atomician.

Yes, you wrote about the Legacy, but since I write in a forum, I wanted to ensure this was clear for anyone reading along. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

I am glad this is working for you!

Have a great start to your week!