Ancestor Effector
Reads a direction attribute from an ancestor (parent, grandparent, etc.) in the growth hierarchy.
Experimental. The effector framework continues to expand. Parameters and behaviour may change.
The Ancestor Effector lets a branch respond to attributes carried on an earlier point in its own growth lineage. Pick an attribute and a level (1 = parent, 2 = grandparent, 3 = great-grandparent, and so on), and the effector walks back along the growth lineage to that depth and writes the ancestor's value at the current point. The result is a per-point effector vector that carries information from further back in the tree's history.
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The effector instance name. |
| Attribute | The name of the attribute to read from the ancestor. Any direction vector attribute that lives on the skeleton is valid (noise vectors, gravity direction, custom directional attributes). |
| Level | How many steps back along the lineage to read from. 1 reads from the parent, 2 from the grandparent, 3 from the great-grandparent, and so on. |
Notes
- The setup becomes harder to reason about as the depth grows; start with level 1 (parent) and increase only when the visual outcome calls for it.
See also: Shaping · Effectors · Noise Effector · Direction Effector · Grow