‘shoal’ of clones forms an object?

[Tim West]

Thanks loads Adam – going to get stuck in and see whats doing what now 🙂

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Here’s an example: https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/spline%20to%20volume.c4d

[Adam Trachtenberg]

I can give you a quick rundown:

The cloner is creating a grid of cubes that are affected by the spline effector and two random effectors. The animation of the spline effector moves the particles along and the procedural (noise) animation of one of the random effectors gives the wavey action.

Then the clones are affected by an Inheritance Effector, which causes the cubes to move to the position of the matrix object particles when they hit the effector’s falloff.

The matrix object particles’ visibility is affected by the volume effector, which hides any particles outside of the referenced sphere. They also have their own random effector to break up the grid pattern.

Note that there are the same number of clones as there are matrix object particles — best to do it that way when cloning or “inheriting” onto the Matrix object.

[Ronaldo Montalvo]

As always, that’s really helpful Adam. Thanks for that. One question, when I open that scene in c4d R10 with mograph it works but the volume effector is missing. Is the volume effector part of a later version of mograph or some other plug-in I am missing?

[Tim West]

I think it’s only available in r11 … maybe wrong …

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Ah, I think it may have been added with v.10.5 or 11.