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Rigid-body dynamics. I've updated my previous post for clarity.

Wow. Ask and you shall receive. Thank you Cerbera. I kind of knew some of those (like the fog and booleans) but the others I will investigate further. It's like working on your house-pull away the sheetrock to find all sorts of surprises - some fantastic and some mind boggling (but all in the good way).

Volume builder is just another set of tools in the toolbox, but particularly suited to a number of specific situations. Modelling is only a part of what it does. Pre R2025.1, it found a lot of use in making up for the deficits we had in the boolean department, but that aspect has become less important since the new Boolean Tool arrived, which in and of itself solves a lot of problems and annoyances the old one had. However VB remains useful, thusly... 1. Fast iteration and concepting; it can be preferable to use a VB setup to quickly put together basic forms which might need changing or updating at any time before a concept is finalised enough to become a polygonal model. 2. Transitional Forms and advantages over Booleans; For all those situations where boolean operations don't produce rounded or beveled transitions between operands VB can do that very easily and adjustably whilst not losing any parametricity. Uniquely they do this without needing to base the result on topology like bevel deformer on a boole would for example, and are therefore free from the artefacts that usually results in. 3. Combining with ReMesher to save modelling time; It is sometimes a lot easier to get a tricky base form started using the VB before remeshing it early on, and carrying on with poly modelling from there. 4. Infinite resolution; VB setups can be generated at any level of detail in a way that no other method can. 5. Incorporation of splines, points, generators and matrices into modelling; No other systems within Cinema allow this as fully / directly as VB / VM. 6. Allows Noise-based and Field-based modelling; useful for producing the sort of meshes that are nigh on impossible to create any other way. 7. Unique Layer and folder-based hierarchy; with similarly unique elements like erode / dilate and multiple levels of smoothing. 8. Clouds / volume based elements; SDF is not the only mode here, we also have a fog mode which is how we can generate our own cloud and volumetric forms and the like... 9. Vector Mode; useful for spatially-based vector and field operations that can control and apply to forces. And there will be more I haven't mentioned - the Volume builder in Cinema is a lot wider in scope than first appears obvious, and with every improvement and iteration it gets it becomes more useful (see cache layers / transitions etc), and its less desirable behaviours get further minimised and improved upon. As primarily a trad modeller myself I don't use it as much as others do, but there are definitely times when it helps me and I call on it when other methods fall short, or would take an unreasonably long amount of time when time is an issue and deadlines are looming... CBR