Duplicating geometry during a RBD simulation

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Hi all,
I've got a quite simple RBD simulation with a bunch of spheres falling down.
What I'm trying to do is have those spheres randomly duplicate at some point in the simulation and I'm really quite stuck

So far I'm stuck on randomly duplicating the spheres, let alone the geometry side of things. I'm trying to set up an expression to assist with this, but nothing seems to be working.
As a side note, why the heck can't I see the results of expressions if the output is a string? It makes debugging really difficult.

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There was a bracing error in some of my expressions…which I've fixed. Now geometry is duplicated correctly (a single sphere, at a random time).

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I tried something earlier today and sort of got what I was after…but I've tried to duplicate it in a simpler scene and it just wont happen. This is becoming really frustrating.
I've attached my scene and hopefully the notes will explain things.

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I can't understand you well, did you mean RBD Fractured Object ?

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if you want emit rbd every 20 frames, you can use expression on Creation Frame

if($SF%20==0,$SF,0)
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I have a bunch of spheres, at the moment there are 5.
Randomly, I want the spheres to duplicate.

That's about as basic as I can describe it
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Here you go:

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Here you go:
oh my god,i spent two days trying to get this effect,didnt think of a solution as elegant as yours…
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