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Fields will revolutionize your motion graphics workflow because they offer tremendous power to control the strength of parametric modeling and animation effects. In fact they're similar to falloffs from prior versions of Cinema 4D but offer much more flexibility and in addition to MoGraph and deformers, you can use them with vertex maps, selection sets and volumes. In this video though we're going to focus on using Fields with MoGraph and these bite-sized candies and the first thing we're going to do is define a basic effect by adding a Plain Effector. Now just as usual you control what happens to these clones here in the parameter tab and right now we're simply moving them up 100 units on the y-axis I'm going to exaggerate the effect a bit and set this to 400 units and just as in the past we can control where this effect occurs in the falloff tab but now instead of a simple drop down with basic shapes we have a Fields interface and all of the basic falloff shapes are implemented here as Field objects so if I want a basic spherical falloff I can simply add a spherical field. Down here I have access to the basic properties of the field and in the case of the sphere it's just the size but then in the remapping tab I get more control over the shape of the falloff. So of course I can adjust the overall strength I can also adjust the inner offset which works a lot like the falloff percentage in prior versions of Cinema 4D - with this at 100% basically I'm going to affect all of the clones within the sphere equally or I can set this down to zero and I'm going to get a smooth falloff from the center of the sphere to the edge. I can gain even more control over the shape of the falloff with these contour modes there's a quadratic mode here for basic adjustment of the curve or we can jump into the curve mode and use Cinema 4D's Spline UI to really dial in the shape of the falloff and you'll notice that in addition to seeing the adjustments reflected live in the viewport we also have this remapping curve that shows us how the falloff for this specific field is being affected. In addition to quadratic and curve we have step and quantized modes which allow you to get multi stepped falloff. Now you may have noticed that in addition to adjusting the position of these clones we're also tweaking the color as well. The effectors now have this Fields Color mode that allows us to set the color for these clones using the Fields themselves and in the case of the spherical field here that's all defined within the color remapping tab in this case we're just using a basic color and setting the opacity based on the value of the field. We can also remap the values of the field to a gradient in order to easily colorize our clones. One of the real powerful aspects of fields is that they can be layered together so we can add a box field here and use typical image blending modes to choose how to combine these together. Do we can subtract this box from the spherical field and...