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Using Effectors

Using Effectors - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Using Effectors

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- [Instructor] Effectors can modify clones in a multitude of ways. So let's look at how we can work with effectors. I'm going to select my cloner object, and come over to the MoGraph menu, Effector, and we'll just add a plane effector, and immediately you'll see that the clones have moved up 100 units in the y-axis. If we look at the Parameter tab, we can see that that is what's happening. So how did that happen? Well, we have a cloner and we have an Effectors tab, and the plane effector has been added to that list. You can enable and disable effectors from the list just by clicking here, or you can enable and disable them in the Object Manager. With the cloner selected, when you create an effector from the MoGraph menu, it will automatically be added to the effectors list. If we did not have the cloner selected, it wouldn't be added to this list, and we'd have to manually drag it in. So the process is just to drag it in to the Effectors field like so, or you can come over and use…

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