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 or object movement that follows or swarms along 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 the 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 with the Inheritance Effector to achieve a “swarming” effect. As in Part 2 of this series, you can also add a Dynamic Tag to the Cloner Object to make sure your clones don’t intersect one another with this technique.
Inheritance Effector Tutorial: Part 1
Inheritance Effector Tutorial: Part 2
Here is a sample video where I utilized this technique to make a swarm of butterflies each land onto their own individual flowers:
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