Deformer

Deformation

The following options are available, depending on how an Effector should affect objects:

Off

No deformation will take place.

Object

The objects as a whole will be affected.

Point

Each object point will be moved individually.

Polygon

Each polygon will be affected individually using its own polygon coordinate system.

For demonstration purposes, a Random Effector was used in the example below. Each polygon’s position was changed individually.

From left to right: Object mode, Polygon mode, Point mode; the polygons in the center and right images have been disconnected.

The Spline Effector can be used to transform objects along splines (as long as the splines are subdivided sufficiently). The following example was created using a parametric Torus primitive.

From left to right: Increasing Spline Effector strength in Point deformation mode.

You can also apply an Effector in its basic form (e.g. a Shader Effector with no shader, only position transformation) whose falloff is defined using particles:

The Effector’s falloff (here using a Plane primitive) is defined using a radius around the particle.

As you can see, the number of possible combinations is practically endless. All we can say is „Experiment, experiment...and experiment some more!“ There is a lot to discover by simply playing around with the different settings.

See also Deformation Tab.