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The test icon changes to a green or red light bulb to indicate
current functionality: green for always True, and red for always False.
To return to the original functionality, click the icon again. The
mouse cursor changes to the depicted image when this action is possible.
Selecting, Moving, and Copying
■ To copy an action or event, first press and hold the Shift key and position
the mouse cursor over the item to copy. When the plus sign (+) appears
next to the mouse cursor arrow, drag the item to a new location. When
you release the mouse button, the Clone Options dialog appears; choose
Copy or Instance and click OK. In the Clone Options dialog, the Event
And Particle System group is unavailable, as a reminder that you cannot
instance these elements. Reference is not an option when cloning Particle
System elements. Cloning an event or particle system simply creates a new
event or particle system containing clones of the original's actions.
Any instanced actions have identical properties. Changing one instance's
values changes them all. On the other hand, copied actions can have
different values.
To clone multiple items, highlight them all before Shift+dragging. If you
attempt to clone a combination of actions and events, or actions from
different events, the result depends on where you start dragging from. If
you drag a highlighted action, you'll clone only actions from that event.
If you drag an event, only highlighted events are cloned.
NOTE When you highlight an instanced action, Particle View indicates all of
its other instances by changing their background color to a lighter shade of
gray.
■ To move an event, drag its title bar, or the icon of any of its actions. If you
drag the event to an edge of the display, and scrolling is possible, the
display window will automatically scroll in that direction.
■ To resize an event, drag its right edge.
■ To highlight multiple items, drag a rectangle around them, or Ctrl+click
them individually.
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