This daemon turns an attached object into an attractor, pulling the particles towards its faces. A useful trick is to use a "Drag" daemon combined with the "Magic" daemon to obtain faster convergence of the particles around the object and avoid orbiting effects.
Object
Drag the object you want to use with “Magic” to this slot. Only one object is allowed.
Linked Fluids
All fluid containers inside the drag-and-drop field will be affected by the daemon. The first fluid container in the scene is linked automatically, others have to be attached manually.
Affect
There are two options:
- "Force" accelerates the particles and they become faster and faster as long as the force is acting on them.
- “Velocity” only works with particles and adds the daemon's "Strength" value to a particles speed. The resulting peak velocity remains constant during the simulation.
An example: Let's assume the daemon's "Strength" is 9.8 and the emitter's "Speed" value is 2.0. Here, a particle's velocity will be roughly 11.8 m/s.
Approach Strength
This is the object's attraction strength. Higher settings lead to faster particles and a more or less dynamic wobbling.
Escape Strength
With this parameter overshooting effects, introduced by high “Approach Strength” settings can be drastically reduced, because it counteracts the attracting forces.
Magic Mode
“Nearest Face” is the most commonly used mode and causes the particles to travel to their nearest polygon. With “Random Face” you can introduce a turbulent distribution of the particles.
Random Within Face
When this option is set to “Yes” the particles will constantly change their positions over the object’s surface.