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Particle View Menu Bar 123
Inter face
Edit menu
Each of the first three commands on this menu
presents a submenu containing all actions. Choose
the command, and then choose an action from
the submenu.
Note: The Undo and Redo commands are available
from the main 3ds Max Edit menu, and their
default keyboard shortcuts are the same: CT RL+Z
and CT RL+Y,respectively.
New—Adds a new event containing the chosen
action to the event display.
Insert Before—Inserts the chosen item above each
highlighted act ion. Available only when one or
more actions are highlighted.
Append To—Inserts the chosen item at then end of
each highlighted event. Available only when one
or more events are highlig hted.
Turn On All—Turnsonallactionsandevents.
Turn Off All—Tur ns off a ll act ions and eve nts.
Tu rn On S elected—Turns on any highlighted,
turned-off actions or events. Available only when
one or more highlighted items are turned off.
Turn Of f S elected—Tur ns off any highlighted,
turned-on actions or events. Available only when
one or more highlighted items are turned on.
Mak e Unique—Converts an instanced action to a
copy that’s unique to its event. Available only when
one or more instanced actions are highlighted.
Wire Selected—Wires one or more highlighted tests
to a highlighted event, or one or more highlighted
global events to a hig hlighted birth event. Available
only when one or more tests and a single event are
highlighted, or when one or more global events
and a sing le birth event are highlighted.
Co py—Copies any highlighted events, act ions, and
wires to the paste buffer. Keyboard equivalent:
CTRL +C.
Pas t e—Pastes the contents of the paste buffer to
the event display. Keyboard equivalent: CT R L +V .
The result of copying and then pasting multiple
items depends on what you copied:
• If y ou copied multiple actions, pasting adds
them all to a sing le new event , e ven if they
originally came from different events.
• Copy i ng multiple events or w ires pastes them
exactly as copied.
• If you copied a combination of actions and
events, pasting creates a new event for each
group of actions from a single event. F or
example, if you high lig ht event A, some actions
from event B, and some actions from event
C, copying and then pasting would add three
events: a copy of event A, a second event with
the actions from event B, and a third event with
the actions from event C.
Paste Ins tanced—Pastes the contents of the paste
buffer to the event display, making instances of any
pasted actions and their originals.