Get Context

What is it about?

This page covers the Get Context node of the Scene Nodes system in Cinema 4D. Inside effector or field groups it reads context data like colors, indices or matrices of the processed elements — the key to element-aware custom effectors.

This Node allows you to read out additional information of a distribution, an effector or a field, which can then be used within an effector or field group. This allows you, for example, to also access information such as the colors, the index ratio or even the velocities that would otherwise not be available within an effector or field group.

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