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Smart PRS is a Cinema4D tag that allows to record position, rotation and scale of one or multiple objects to key frames.

This is especially useful for all, who want to bake Thinking Particel setups and don’t own the MOCCA module.

Take a look at the demonstration Video.



Recently I tried to use the AfterEffects export Option from Cinema4D to pass a simple particle animation to AE.

Unfortunately this didn´t work out – the issue is that all animation capable export formats/plugins rely on key frames, and objects animated via Xpresso/Thinking Particles are most times not even present in the timeline as they get generated as “Particle Geometry”.

While this can be easily fixed by creating them manually and linking the particle positions to them, it´s still impossible to export that animation without key frames.

Cinema4D offers the option to “bake” certain motions to key frames, but not from simulations.
Actually there is a plug-in called “Cappuccino” within the MOCCA module that allows this, but if you are not into character animation, chances are you don´t have it handy.


SmartPRS makes those animations export-and editable by recording them as key frames while the simulation is running.
After that, the Xpresso setup can be removed from the scene and the animation edited or exported.

The plug-in even allows to capture the position of an object that gets moved in real-time by the mouse.