Island Cloner
Treats each disconnected piece of a mesh as a clone, so cloner effectors can move, rotate, scale, and colour the pieces independently.
The Island Cloner finds the separate pieces in a mesh, the parts of a model or the shards of a Boolean Shatter, and hands each one to the cloner effectors as if it were a clone.
- Islands From chooses model parts or geometric connectivity
- Four Effector inputs take any cloner effector
- Found in the node graph under Surfaces → Deformers
The image on the right is the example patch itself. Drag and drop it onto the app, or load it with File → Load, to open the full graph. A sphere and a box are merged, split by connectivity, and lifted by a Plain Effector.
Inputs and outputs
| Port | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Surface | The mesh with pieces. |
| Effector 1 … Effector 4 | Effector | Cloner effectors: Plain, Randomise, Step, Noise, Target, and the rest. |
| Surface | Surface | The mesh with every piece moved by the effectors. |
Like other deformers it gathers from the mesh it follows, so it can hang off a branch as a dead end and still apply.
Parameters
- Islands From — Model Parts (default) uses the parts a loaded model declares; Connectivity splits by which faces share vertices, which works on any mesh.
- Minimum Size % (0–25, default 0) — discards pieces smaller than this share of the largest piece. 0 keeps every piece.
- Islands — a read-only count of the pieces found.
The effectors carry the animatable controls; see Cloners for each one.
Examples
Explode — a Boolean Shatter into Island Cloner with a Randomise Effector, its offsets driven by an LFO.
Assemble — a multi-part model with Islands From Model Parts and a Target Effector aimed at a Null; animate the Null.
Troubleshooting
Tiny slivers fly around after a Shatter — raise Minimum Size %.
Related
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