EFFECTOR.AVI  -  rendered by Dean Scott  5/25/96


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In this zipped archive is a test of LightWave 5.0's
Effector Displacement Map Plug-in.

A simple sphere (image mapped with the earth) is swallowed
by a simple tube (textured using marble as a transparency map
to make an electrical field).

The method used was to add a Null Object to the scene, load up
the Effector Plug-in for it's Displacement Map, and enter
values for the Core Diameter of influence and a nearly equal
Falloff value that caused the null object to bulge out the
tube (many segments and tripled) to match the shape of the
sphere.  The sphere (earth) was parented to the null and the
null moved perfectly vertically thru the center of the tube.

The Core diameter value does not neccessarily coincide with
the actual diameter of the sphere.  That is, the sphere has
a 2 meter radius (4 meter diameter), but the Null's Effector
core diameter had to be set to 1.0 meter or so.  The Falloff
value was set near to 1.0 as well so that the tube snuggly
hugged the sphere instead of having a conical tape ahead of
and behind the sphere as in passed thru the tube.