user: Describe Common Field Settings from the Blender manual or Python API, including usage steps and snippets.

assistant: Most fields have the same settings, even though they act very differently.
Settings unique to a field type are described below.
Curve Guide and Texture fields have very different options.

Shape
:   Sets the direction which is used to calculate the effector force.
    For force fields from an empty object only *Point*, *Line* and *Plane* shapes are available,
    as for a field from a 3D object there are additional *Surface* and *Every Point* options,
    and *Curve* for a field from a curve.

    Point:
    :   Point with omnidirectional influence. Uses the object origin as the effector point.

    Line:
    :   The force only acts in the local XY plane, using the Z axis line as the effector.

    Plane:
    :   The force only acts in the local Z direction, using the XY axis plane as the effector.

    Surface:
    :   The force field acts on a 3D object’s surface.
        In this case, the Z axis is the surface normal.

    Every Point:
    :   Uses every vertex in the mesh object as an effector point.

Strength
:   The strength of the field effect.
    This can be positive or negative to change the direction that the force operates in.
    A force field’s strength is scaled with the force object’s scale,
    allowing you to scale up and down the scene, keeping the same effects.

Flow
:   If nonzero, this adds a drag force proportional and opposite to the point velocity.

    This effectively re-interprets the force field so that the *Strength* to *Flow* ratio
    at a certain point defines the velocity of an “air flow” field, and objects are
    encouraged to follow the flow by the resistance caused by the *Flow* drag force.

Affect
:   Location
    :   Influence the location of particles and other physics entities.

    Rotation
    :   Influence the rotation of particles with [Dynamic Rotation](../../particles/emitter/rotation.html).
        The option is not relevant for other types of physics systems.

    Disabling both options completely deactivates the force field.

Noise Amount
:   Adds noise to the strength of the force.

Seed
:   Changes the seed of the random noise.

Absorption
:   Force gets absorbed by collision objects.

Wind Factor
:   Specifies how much the force is reduced when acting parallel to a surface, e.g. cloth.
    If set to 1, only the normal component of the force is taken into account.

### Falloff

Here you can specify the shape of the force field
(if the falloff *Power* is greater than 0).

Shape
:   Cone:
    :   The falloff results in a cone-shaped force field. Additional options are the same as those of *Tube* options.

    Sphere:
    :   The falloff is uniform in all directions, as in a sphere.

    Tube:
    :   The falloff results in a tube-shaped force field.
        The field’s *Radial Power* can be adjusted,
        as well as the *Minimum* and *Maximum* distances of the field.

Z Direction
:   The direction the force affects on the Z axis.

    +Z:
    :   The force only has an affect on the positive Z axis.

    -Z:
    :   The force only has an affect on the negative Z axis.

    Both Z:
    :   The force has an affect on the positive and negative Z axis.

Power
:   How the power of the force field changes with the distance from the force field.
    If *r* is the distance from the origin of the object, the force changes with 1/(*r* - *min* + 1)power.
    A falloff of 2 changes the force field with 1/(*r* - *min* + 1)2,
    which is similar to the falloff of gravitational pull.

Min Distance
:   The distance from the object’s origin, up to where the force field is effective with full strength.
    If you have a falloff of 0, this parameter will have no effect,
    because the field is effective with full strength up to *Max Distance* (or infinite).
    Shown by an additional circle around the object.

Max Distance
:   Specifies the maximum radius in which the force field affects other objects
    (shown by an additional circle around the object).