Did you try to reorient the axis?

Hello, I am a rookie at C4D still finding my way around this beautiful app. 

I have a character with motion graph data assigned to it, and I want the figure to have a soft body characteristic in order to flop around and bounce off a rigid wall. But when I assign a soft body tag, C4D stops responding. After further research I realised why this occurs, so I looked into tutorials talking about a mesh deformer, so far I have seen these tutorials only work on symmetrical objects. 

Can an asymmetrical object be deformed using the soft body tag?

Thank you 3DKiwi!!