X-Particles

X-Particles is the industry-standard particle and VFX system for Cinema 4D. Built for artists and technical directors alike, it delivers a complete simulation toolkit: from simple particle effects through to large-scale fire, smoke, fluids and crowd simulations.

What X-Particles can do

X-Particles is built around the xpEmitter, the core object from which particles are born. Emitters feed into a flexible system of modifiers, questions, actions and dynamic solvers that give you precise control over every particle in your scene.

Particles & fluids: emit, collide and simulate millions of particles with sub-frame accuracy
Fire & smoke: drive xpExplosiaFX volumetric simulations directly from particle data
Rigid & soft bodies: full dynamics integration including cloth via xpClothFX
Splines & geometry: trail, stick and grow particles along surfaces or splines
Rendering: dedicated materials, shaders and render settings for every major renderer

In this documentation

Section	Description
xpEmitter	The primary particle emitter: all parameters
Modifiers	Control particle behaviour: motion, colour, physics, spawning and more
Generators	Produce geometry, meshes, trails and splines from particle data
Dynamics	Rigid bodies, cloth (xpClothFX) and physics solvers
Tags	Particle tags including Bullet physics tags
System Objects	xpSystem, xpSystemSort, xpCache, xpQuickTools and xpPainter
Utilities	Utility objects: groups, deformers, data import/export, OpenVDB import and more
Render Settings, Materials & Shaders	Complete render pipeline reference
Data Mapping	Drive parameters from particle data channels
Question Object	Conditional logic for particle behaviour
Project Settings	Important settings for Collisions, Fluids and Constraints