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title: "Particle Property Manager"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER.html"
section_path: "Simulate Menu > The Simulation System > Particle Property Manager"
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description: "This page describes the Particle Property Manager in Cinema 4D. It lists all built-in and custom per-particle properties — color, radius, velocity or your …"
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# Particle Property Manager

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page describes the **Particle Property Manager** in **Cinema 4D**. It lists all built-in and custom per-particle properties — color, radius, velocity or your own data channels — which emitters, modifiers and render setups can read and write.

This manager allows you to manage both the properties automatically generated by particle simulation objects and those added manually. You can use these properties to attach custom data packages to the particles, which then store actual particle property values—such as a particle’s color, radius, or velocity—or you can use your own property values to assign, for example, the results of calculations to individual particles.

**The covered topics on this page are:**

- [Simulation Scene Selector](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER-FP_MANAGER_OBJECT_GROUP.html.md)
- [System Properties](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER-FP_MANAGER_OBJECT_GROUP.html.md)
- [Automatic Properties](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER-FP_MANAGER_OBJECT_GROUP.html.md)
- [Manual Properties](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER-FP_MANAGER_OBJECT_GROUP.html.md)
- [References](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER-FP_MANAGER_OBJECT_GROUP.html.md)
- [Usage Example for Custom Properties](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OFPMANAGER-FP_MANAGER_OBJECT_GROUP.html.md)