How to change material of cloned object with effector? Tweet

[misnerp]

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/333488523[/vimeo]

TLDW:

I'm animating a factory line of donuts. The donuts are cloned and are setup on a path (spline effector) and the offset is animated so the move on this path. As the donuts go down the line they will pass through an oven. I want to setup an effector that changes the material as it passes through. I'd like to make this as seemless as possible so I can show the donut getting "cooked" and later on I want to show them getting Icing put on as well. I've done research and a lot of the videos/post don't have the cloner objects moving or animating. Instead they have the falloff animated as it passes over the objects. In the video above I show how I thought I would accomplish it with the Shader effector but it didn't work.

Any help or info is appreciated! Thank you!

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
the video seems not available on vimeo, anyway, what about animating the amount of a Mix or Bland material with a linear gradient in Planar projection?
ciao Beppe