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GRAB THE EFFECTOR. THE CLONES REACT.
Effektor is a Blender add-on that puts Cinema 4D-style cloners and effectors in one sidebar panel. Clone any object, grab the effector in the viewport, and the clones inside its falloff react, live.
In Blender, a cloner with effectors means Geometry Nodes: instances on points, a random value per clone, a falloff built from matrices and distances, a simulation zone for any follow-through. It works, but you rebuild it for every job, and every change of mind sends you back into the node tree.
WHAT IT IS
Select an object and press Make Cloner: it becomes a grid of itself, or a line, a ring, a rising spiral or a scatter across another mesh. Press + and an Empty appears. That Empty is the falloff: move, rotate or scale it and the clones inside react. Stack Plain, Random, Step, Texture, Sound and Delay effectors, reorder or mute them, and keyframe any value right where you set it. You never open the node editor.
WHAT THIS DOES THAT BLENDER DOES NOT
Blender's Geometry Nodes can build all of this by hand. Effektor builds it for you, keeps it editable from one panel, and cleans up after itself when you remove it.
| TASK | STOCK BLENDER | WITH EFFEKTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Clone an object into a grid, ring or spiral | Instance on Points plus point maths in a node tree | Make Cloner, then pick a mode |
| Push the clones near a point in space | Object Info, Invert Matrix, a distance and a Map Range, wired by hand | Grab the effector Empty |
| Random jitter with a ramp on top | More nodes, wired in the right order | Add Random and Step to the stack; reorder with the arrows |
| Follow-through and spring | A Simulation Zone with a stored velocity attribute | A Delay effector, Blend or Spring |
| Animate the effect | Expose sockets on the modifier and key them there | Keyframe any value in the panel, or animate the Empty |
| Clones pulsing to a track | Sound to Samples in the Graph Editor, then wire the curve in | Bake Audio on a Sound effector |
| An effect nobody has built yet | Geometry Nodes does anything you can wire | Effektor gives you its six effector types; for anything else, open Geometry Nodes |
COMPATIBILITY
| Blender | 5.0 and newer (tested up to 5.2) |
| Operating System | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Render Engines | EEVEE, Cycles and Workbench |
FEATURES
1GRAB THE EFFECTOR. THE CLONES REACT.
Make a cloner, press + and an Empty appears. That Empty is the falloff: move, rotate or scale it in the viewport and every clone inside reacts, live, before a single keyframe exists.
2STACK EFFECTORS LIKE LAYERS
Add Plain, Random and Step to one cloner and each layer builds on the last. Reorder them, mute one, or blend it per cloner with its own strength slider.
3FOLLOW-THROUGH WITH DELAY AND SPRING
Put a Delay at the end of the stack and the clones follow late: Blend eases them in, Spring makes them overshoot, wobble and settle. No simulation setup, and it bakes with Blender's own simulation bake.
4FOUR CLONERS, ONE CLICK
Grids in 2D or 3D, lines, rings and rising spirals, or a scatter across any mesh that follows its surface. Switch modes at any time; shared values like the count come along.
5TEXTURES DRIVE THE CLONES
Procedural noise or an image drives every clone, sampled where the effector sits. Keyframe Scroll and a wave rolls through the field; shape the edge with Sphere, Box or Linear falloffs.
6ANY OBJECT, ANY COLLECTION
Clone a mesh, a curve or a text object, or drop in a collection and every clone becomes a random pick from it. Change Pick Seed to reshuffle, Clone Scale to resize them all.
7CLONES THAT HEAR THE MUSIC
Set an effector to Sound, bake a WAV, MP3, OGG or FLAC, and the clones pulse to its loudness. For kick-only or hats-only reactions, one click hands the effector to Audio Trigger.
8EVERY VALUE KEYFRAMES. NO NODE EDITOR.
Effektor builds and rewires the Geometry Nodes tree for you. Every cloner and effector value has a keyframe dot right where you set it, and Remove Cloner leaves the plain object behind.
9ECHO TRAIL, RIGS INCLUDED
Select an animated object, or a whole rigged character, and Echo Trail turns it into fading, time-offset copies. Each copy has a handle you can grab, and one click clears them.
WHAT YOU GET
- Effektor 1.0.1 as a Blender extension: drag the .zip into Blender to install
- 4 cloner modes: Grid (2D and 3D), Linear, Radial (rings and spirals) and Surface scatter
- 6 effector types: Plain, Random, Step, Texture (noise or image), Sound and Delay (Blend or Spring)
- 4 falloff shapes: None, Sphere, Box and Linear, each with Inner and Outer softness
- An effector stack on every cloner: reorder, mute and blend each effector; one effector can drive many cloners
- Echo Trail: fading, time-offset motion trails, rigged characters included
- A one-click link to Audio Trigger for per-band, realtime audio reactions (Audio Trigger is sold separately)
- Full documentation and a quick-start guide
- Direct email support from the developer
UPDATES AND SUPPORT
Updates install with one click inside Blender through Superhive's extension repository, and every update is free.
- Questions or problems: [email protected]
- Licence: GPL, source included. Use it on anything, commercial or not.
CHANGELOG
| 1.0.1 (launch date to set) | First release: 4 cloner modes, 6 effector types, 4 falloff shapes, the effector stack, Echo Trail and the Audio Trigger link. Tested on Blender 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. |
BUY ONCE, DRAG THE .ZIP INTO BLENDER, AND HAVE YOUR FIRST CLONER REACTING IN UNDER A MINUTE: SELECT AN OBJECT, PRESS MAKE CLONER, PRESS +, GRAB THE EMPTY.