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Inheritance Effector
Cinema 4DIntermediateFree
2 January 2023
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Inheritance Effector in Cinema 4D allows you to transfer or "inherit" transformations and properties from a source object or effector to clones or other MoGraph objects, enabling complex animation behaviors and procedural control.
What It Is
- Transfers position, rotation, scale, and other attributes from a target source to clones or MoGraph elements.
- Supports blending multiple effectors or sources for layered control.
- Non-destructive, procedural method to synchronize animations or effects.
- Includes options for falloff and strength to customize influence.
How It Works
- Add an Inheritance Effector to your MoGraph Cloner or object.
- Set the Effector’s "Inheritance Target" to the object or effector you want to copy transformations from.
- Adjust which channels (position, scale, rotation, visibility, color) to inherit.
- Modify the strength and falloff parameters to control how strongly the inheritance affects the clones.
- Combine with other effectors to create layered and dynamic animations.
Use Cases
- Synchronizing clone animations to a moving object or another effector.
- Layering multiple animation effects procedurally.
- Creating complex motion by inheriting transformations from multiple sources.
- Controlling visibility or color inheritance for dynamic effects.
Benefits
- Enables procedural animation transfer without keyframes.
- Flexible control over which properties to inherit and how strongly.
- Works seamlessly with other MoGraph effectors for complex setups.
- Non-destructive and easy to adjust for iterative animation workflows.
More info here in the Maxon documentation.
Video Credit: TutorialCells software.
Description: This video demonstrates the Mograph Inheritance Effector in Cinema 4D.
