Nobody has any clue to as how this was done?

I would think it’s possible with Afterburn. It will take some rendering though. I remember doing an AB tutorial once with a missile with glowing rocket plume and smoke.
Been a while since I used AB.
Also, the title says C4D and AE, so some of it is comp work. To me the smoke on the launch sequence looks very real, it may well have been filmed on choma key and comped in AE. The smoke while flying will likely be particles with some kind of volumetric effect applied to them. It could be replicated with Pflow and AB with some time and effort.

Thx Samab.

Anyone else actually done this before? Some pointers would be great, as I do not have al that much time to experiment with variuos options to get this effect working.

I bet Allan would know but he is so busy.

Could this thread be moved to particles section please.

Thank you

DOH - Of course it is.........sorry. Will look at it now

I have asked this to be moved as you indicated but no one has actioned it yet, so how do i get this moved?

I moved it here, Particles/Dynamics, within a few minutes of you asking. This IS the Particles forum…

Oops to many long nights trying to figure this out

Thanks for the reply Samab. I have finally got the solution i need.

Cheers