[atadami]

kvaalen, your method worked like a charm! although i still need to figure out a smart way to vary the color of the gumballs more.

here i used two particle emitters, one for the purple gumballs, and one for the white ones. when i went to add a third emitter for another color, lightwave crashed...

anyone wanna guess how many gumballs are in the machine?

by the way, the motion designer approach was taking way too long to calculate that many objects.

thanks again Kvaalen!