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Volume Selec t Modifier 935
List panel—
Displays the colors in the pa lette, along
w ith their names.
Swatch panel—Displays the colors in the active
palette. The swatch panel doesn’t list the names of
colors, but each color’s name appear as a tooltip
when the mouse is over the sw atch.
Swatch panel showing default grayscale palette
List and Swatch Panel R ight-Click Menu
When you r ight-click the List panel or the Swatch
panel, a pop-up menu appears.
Co py—Copiestheactivecolor.
ThisisthesameasclickingCopy.
Pas te—Pastesacolortotheactiveswatch.
ThisisthesameasclickingPaste.
New—Adds a color to the palette.
ThisisthesameasclickingNew.
Delete—Deletes the active color.
ThisisthesameasclickingDelete.
Save As—Displays a Save As dialog (page 3–403)
that lets you enter a name for the CCB file, then
save it.
By default, Color Clipboard files are saved in
the
\images directory b elow the 3ds Max root
directory.
Loa d—Displaysafileopendialogthatletsyou
choose a CCB palette file to load.
View—Displays a text-editor window with the
current CCB palette file. If no CCB file has b een
loaded or saved, choosing View has no effect.
The first 12 lines of a CCB file contain integer RGB
values. This part of the file is used by the
Color
Clipboard ut i lity (page 1–159)
and ignored by the
Color Palette dialog. The remaining lines of the
file include floating-point RGB values and color
names.
Volume S elect Modifier
Modify panel > Make a selection. > Modifier List > Vol.
Select
Make a selection. > Modifiers menu > Selection Modifiers
> Volume Select
Faces and vertices selected using box volumes.
TheVolumeSelectmodifierletsyoumakea
sub-object select ion of ver tices or faces for passing
up the stack to another modifier or modifiers. The
sub-object selection is completely separate from
the underlying parametric geometry of the object.
Like other selection methods, Volume Select works
with single or multiple objects.