INSTALLATION

Download effektor 1.0.1 (achat_effektor-1.0.1.zip) and drag it into Blender, or use Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install from Disk. Keep the .zip zipped. Press N in the 3D Viewport: Effektor has its own tab.

QUICK START

1. Press N in the 3D Viewport and open the Effektor tab.
2. Select an object and press Make Cloner. Pick Grid, Linear, Radial or Surface.
3. Press + under Effectors. Select the new Empty, press G and move it through the clones.
4. In the Effector panel, change its Type: Plain, Random, Step, Texture, Sound or Delay.
5. Right-click any value and choose Insert Keyframe to animate it.

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.

GOOD TO KNOW

• Effectors need Effektor installed. A file opened without it still shows the cloner, but every effector switches off, so install Effektor on a render farm or a collaborator's machine.
• New effectors start with a Sphere falloff (radius 3) at the cloner. For a jitter, ramp, texture or pulse across the whole cloner, set Falloff to None.
• Delay is a simulation: play it from the start frame. Before a farm renders frames out of order, bake it with Blender's simulation bake (Physics properties > Simulation Nodes > Bake).
• Delay trails positions only; rotation and scale follow at once. It smooths motion that already exists, so animate an effector above it in the stack.
• Spring's Damping calms the bounce: lower values overshoot more, 1 settles without overshooting. Stiffness 0.3 with Damping 0.4 is a good start.
• The Linear falloff runs along the Empty's own Z axis: rotate the Empty to aim it. The Empty always displays as a sphere, whatever the falloff shape.
• Sound bakes the loudness of the whole track, one key per frame over the scene range, and replaces earlier Strength keys on that effector. For kick-only or hats-only reactions, use Drive via Audio Trigger.
• The viewport slows down above about 100,000 clones. Design at lower counts and raise them for the render.
• Echo Trail copies keyframed animation; motion that comes only from physics or constraints won't trail.
• Blender 5.0 or newer.

SUPPORT

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