thats brilliant. I thought at first it was controlling the points on the spline, not emission. Thank you!!!

Since you lose the emission rate switching to points, any work around to controlling how many particles are emitted?

This is perfect. Thanks so much

Is there a way to use fields to trigger where and when particles are emitted along a spline? For example if I have a helix spline and I animated a box field to align to spline, and it starts at the bottom of the spline and moves to the top, can it control the particles to only be emitted when the box field passes through that area of the spline? Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks!

@AlexC I have seen these too, and mostly they have been used in reference to a coordinate system. Allows multiple people to work on the same project and have exact placement on objects. I believe they end up as a Null when imported in Cinema

Thanks Dr Sassi! I was reading a post in a different forum that others recommending using an absolute path vs. a relative path? Would you know how to do that with the xref file?

Thank you Dr Sassi! I have created a support ticket, and wanted to check here just in case anyone had some solutions. Hopefully it will be an easy fix.

I have a bunch of files that are linked to an xref that will no longer open. In the task manager at the bottom it shows that it is "loading" and at the end the time remaining just goes up and up, and C4d becomes unresponsive. These files are on a network for work. If I save the xref file locally onto my computer it will open, but all the scene files that are referencing that file will not open, even if saved to my computer as they are still searching for the xref file on the network.