EyeDesyn’s EJ Hassenfratz continues his look at using the Inheritance Effector in Cinema 4D. In part 3 EJ looks at using the Cinema 4D Inheritance Effector to essentially fake particle movement, and make the Particles Swarm Along Splines with MoGraph.
EJ Hassenfratz writes: The Inheritance Effector is probably one of the most underrated and underutilized effectors in the effector menu. In part three of my Inheritance Effector tutorial, I show you how you can fake particle movement that follows or swarms along side a spline path that would normally only be able to be achieved with an Emitter or Thinking Particles and Xpresso. Using a combination of the Inheritance & Spline Effectors along with other Mograph Effectors, you can achieve close to the same effect as an Emitter or Thinking Particles as a simpler alternative in your normal workflow without having to touch Xpresso. Specifically, this tutorial demonstrates the powerful combination of using the Spline Effector along side the Inheritance Effector to achieve a “swarming” effect. As in Part 2 of this series, you can add a Dynamic Tag to the Cloner Object to make sure your clones don’t intersect each other with this technique.
