Step 1

Make a cloner

Select an object and press Make Cloner. It becomes a grid of itself: type the counts and the spacing, or switch the mode to Linear, Radial or Surface.

Step 2

Press + and grab the effector

Press + under Effectors and an Empty appears. That Empty is the falloff: move it with G and the clones inside react while you drag.

Step 3

Shape the falloff, pick a type

Scale the Empty to grow the falloff, choose Sphere, Box, Linear or None, and set the Type: Plain, Random, Step, Texture, Sound or Delay.

Step 4

Stack effectors like layers

Each cloner lists its effectors in the order they apply. Mute one with its checkbox, blend it with its slider, reorder with the arrows.

Grid

Count X, Y and Z with spacing, in 2D or 3D.

Linear

A line of clones with a count and an offset.

Radial

Rings and rising spirals, turned to face outward.

Surface

A scatter across any mesh that follows its surface.

Plain

Pushes, turns and scales the clones inside the falloff.

Random

Jitters each clone up to the Max values, by Seed.

Step

Ramps from the first clone to the last, with Ease.

Texture

Noise or an image drives the clones; Scroll rolls it.

Sound

Bake Audio turns a track's loudness into Strength keys.

Delay

Clones follow late: Blend eases in, Spring overshoots.

Layers that build on each other

Plain lifts a dome, Random breaks it up, Step tilts the whole field. Each layer builds on the last, and one effector can drive several cloners at once.

• Reorder, mute and blend per cloner
• Delay always runs last
• Edit once, every cloner updates

Follow-through with Delay and Spring

Put a Delay at the end of the stack and the clones follow late. Spring makes them overshoot, wobble and settle, with no simulation setup.

• Blend or Spring
• Stiffness and Damping
• Bakes with Blender's simulation bake

Textures 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.

• Noise or any image
• Noise Scale and Scroll
• Sphere, Box or Linear edges

Any 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.

• Mesh, curve, text, surface, metaball
• Source Collection with Pick Seed
• Clone Scale for all

Clones that hear the music

Set the Type to Sound and press Bake Audio: the track's loudness becomes one Strength key per frame. For kick-only or hats-only reactions, Drive via Audio Trigger links it to Audio Trigger.

• WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC
• Gain, Attack and Release
• Audio Trigger link (sold separately)

Echo Trail, rigs included

Select an animated object or the armature of a character and press Create Echo Trail: fading, time-offset ghosts that trail behind or lead ahead.

• Copies, Offset and Fade
• Include Rig / Children
• Per-copy move, rotate and scale

Keyframe any value

Every cloner field has a keyframe dot, and every effector value keys with a right-click. Animating the Empty works too.

Regular instances

The clones render in EEVEE, Cycles and Workbench like any other Blender instances.

Cleans up after itself

The trash icon removes the cloner and gives you the plain object back.