Thank you very much, entry-newspaper.

I hope you get the visuals that you are after. Fingers crossed that not a lot more exploration is needed.

Two mini tip:

If you need to have the particles sit on the sphere with zero radius, I suggest having a smaller sphere as a collider and the full size as a Sphere without a collider. This allows for a certain amount of traveling of the spheres without swallowing the particles.
CV4_2025_drs_25_PAcs_01.c4d

Another tip: you could create a Kill-Sphere with a Sphere Field inside the sphere.
CV4_2025_drs_25_PAks_01.c4d

All the best

Yes, entry-newspaper,

That was the driving idea: to reverse the flow. Alembic is great for that. As usual, you, as the Project Art Director, know what you need.
Thank you so much for your feedback!

My best wishes for your project

Thanks for the reply, entry-newspaper,

Let me know how it goes.

Enjoy your weekend

Hi entry-newspaper.

To be clear, I take every word of your opinion seriously regarding this theme. I do not see it as a fantasy but as a practical vision.

Yes, it bugs the hell out of me to write replies that there is no solution to my knowledge. 😉 Of course, there is, but if it is a solution, it may be a question of quality and how much one can enjoy a good mesh flow.

How that might work in the future: Perhaps converted into a high-density mesh, moved the Texture to an RGB Vertex color, then thrown into a Volume workflow with a Remesh as output, and the Vertext map transferred to the new mesh, Backed, and meshed to lower density, via VAMP UV mapped. They all were in a capsule, and the MovesByMaxon result was dragged underneath in one step. That will not fly today, but as long as people write "Share Your Ideas" to
https://www.maxon.net/en/support-center.
Is that what a client could do with a push of a button? Sure!

I hope we will get this one day, and perhaps it will be written in faster code than my Frankenstein Capsule from above.

Hi entry-newspaper,

Thanks for the reply; please let me know if I got your target with this setup and if that works well enough to get what you want.

Cheers

You're very welcome, entry-newspaper!

Thanks for taking the time.

Have a great weekend

Thank you very much, entry-newspaper.

Yes, I get that, the training of Gemini seems an ongoing process. 😉

My best wishes

This sounds exciting, entry newspaper.

Thank you so much for sharing your impressions! 🙂

Happy exploring and rendering!

OFF-Topic

Hi entry-newspaper,

Thank you very much, very nice of you.

I moved to L.A. roughly two decades ago, and this year, I moved a little bit north of CA (more space), but I love L.A. deeply.
Before I lived in the "American Sector", 🙂 AKA West Berlin, Germany, the partner city of L.A., perhaps something you intuitively picked up.

I hope you have a great and relaxing days!

You're very welcome, entry-newspaper.

Let me know if you encounter any obstacles.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply, entry-Newspaper.

You can use the Displacement bake to the second object for the standard render and take it from there.

For your setup above, the camera should work; I rendered a tile and offset it in Photoshop to see if I get seams with the 400x400 plane and 50x50 honeycomb; it Worked fine here.

All the best

You're very welcome, entry-newspaper,

I hope that everything moves flawlessly.

When I update from Adobe, I like not to have my settings inherited. Why? Because after a while, I have forgotten it. On the other side, I install many versions here constantly and setting up everything each time can get old, but in the end, for my doing, I have to stay close to the factory default anyway.

In other words, I understand your target and know I should be a one-line answer to it, but I'm careful, based on experience.

I have a little laptop here for all experiments, where it doesn't matter when I mess things up; that helps me a lot to explore.

Back when I was part of a 3D network, I stayed in standard mode all the time, as jumping in to support people close to a deadline wouldn't be possible if I had to change someone's set-up in their studio.

Have a great weekend.

Thanks to you, if will be soon worked on, entry-newspaper.

Have a great Weekend

Yes, entry-newspaper, that sounds odd. 😉

When I started learning Cinema 4D 25+ years ago, I found, after a while, the Command Manager. Back then, it was filled with "just" around 1,000 items. I went through that list and read the manuals three times over the years.

When I start a hand on class, I start with; I don't know everything. To ease everyone's mind. It is accurate, and no one knows Cinema 4D 100%. Even this morning, I was reminded of a feature I missed mentioning to a colleague's question.

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Why I'm talking about it? Take the 1,000 items, combine those with each other, and get a six to seven-digit number of possibilities. Combine three or more of them, and it explodes in possibilities.

It is impossible to cover the whole application while being aware of all combinations. I think I'm close, but wait for the next update and then ask me again 😉

Which also means, there is lots to explore that no one has every combined.

Enjoy the exploration

Hi entry-newspaper,

Yes, M1 Ultra is undoubtedly not the bottleneck here. (I have set up the file above in an M1 max.)

All the best

Thanks for the feedback, entry-newspaper.

I love to have your reply here with the solved problem.

Enjoy!

You're very welcome, entry-newspaper.

Little things, like a mosquito, can annoy as big things. I like to enable everyone to focus on the creative part of our work, not the tech-based problems.

I enjoy the forum's work, as I know that every question solved (fingers crossed, your question as well) will help others at one point. Having the solution or at least the discussion here might save some time.

As usual, a problem comes back until solved.

So, thanks for your question and your patience, and please,

Enjoy your weekend.