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Modifier Stack Controls 803
Using the Modifier Stack (page 1–487)
List of Available Modifiers (page 1–483)
World-Space Modifiers (WSMs) (page 1–498)
Object-Space Modifiers (p age 1–537)
Instances and R eferences in the M odifier
Stack Display
In the modifier stack display, objects and
modifiers appear in normal type unless they are an
instance or a reference. Here is how instances and
references appear in the stack display:
• T he name of an instanced object appears in
boldface.
• The name of a modifier appears in boldface if it
is part of an instanced pipeline.
Top: Plain object displayed in plain text
Bottom: Object instance displayed in boldface
Top: Pipeline displayed in plain text
Bottom: Pipeline instance displayed in boldfa ce
• If a modifier is applied to two or more pipelin es,
it is called an instanced modifier. Its name
appears in italic.
•Ifamodifierisinstanced
and part of an
instanced pipeline, its name appears in boldface
and italic.
Top: Instanced modifier displayed in italic (modifier ap plied
to two objects)
Bottom : Instanced modifier in an instan ced pipeline
displayed in italic and boldface
• A referenced object appears with a dark bar
aboveit.Modifiersbelowthebararepartofthe
current pipeline. Modifiers above the bar are
unique to the reference object.
Note: You can also create instances of a
reference. In this case, the modifier above the
reference bar apply to the reference and to its
instances.
• A modifier above the reference object bar
canitselfbeaninstanceandappearinother
pipelines, in which case its name would be italic
(either plain or boldface).
Top: Objec t reference shows a bar in the pipe
Bottom: Modifier applied to reference is not bold, as it is
unique to this reference
The Make Unique button (page 3–812)
makes a pipeline or a modifier instance unique.
When you highlight the base object and then click
Make Unique, the whole pipeline becomes unique.
When you highlight a bold modifier and then
click Make Unique, this also makes the pipeline
unique. If the modifier is an instanced modifier
that belongs to an instanced pipeline (it appears in
boldface
and italic), clicking Make Unique makes