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Unlike pasting other items, modifiers do not replace the highlighted item
when you click Paste. Instead, the pasted modifier is inserted above the selected
item.
Making Instance and Reference Controllers and
Objects Unique
You can convert instanced and referenced objects into unique objects by
clicking Make Controller Unique on the Track View toolbar or by choosing
Make Unique on the Controller menu. The result of clicking Make Unique
depends on how the object was instanced or referenced, and which object
container you select in the Hierarchy list.
When you make an instance or reference object, you cause the data flow to
branch on its way from the master object to two or more named objects.
■ In Track View, these branches usually occur at Modified Object containers
and sometimes at the base Object container.
■ In Track View, instances and references are displayed in bold face.
■ In the modifier stack, these branches display as a horizontal line, called a
derived object line.
For descriptions of object data flow and instance objects, see
Understanding
Object Data Flow
on page 1074.
You can make an object unique by selecting a Modified Object or an Object
container and clicking Make Unique on the Track View toolbar. Your result
depends on whether or not the data flow branches at the selected container.
■ If the data flow does not branch anywhere below the selected container,
nothing happens.
■ If the data flow does branch at or below the selected container, the data
flow above the branch is split from the current data flow as a unique object.
The data flow from the selected container to the master object is copied
and attached to the new unique object.
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