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952 Chapter 8: Modifiers
List panel—
Displays the colors in the palette, along
w ith their names.
Swatch panel—Displays the colors in the active
palette. The swatch panel do esn’t list the names of
colors, but each color’s name appear as a tooltip
when the mouse is over the swatch.
Swatch panel showing default grayscale palette
List and Swatch Panel Right-Click M enu
When you right-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 3–391)
that lets you enter a name for the CCB file, then
save it.
By default, Color Clipboa rd files are saved in
the \images director y below 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 been
loaded or saved, choosing View has no effect.
The first 12 lines of a CCB file cont ain integer RGB
values. This part of the file is used by the Color
Clipboard utility (page 1–165) and ignored by the
Color Palette dialog. The remaining lines of the
file include floating-point RGB va lues and color
names.
Volume Select Modifier
Modify panel > Make a selection. > Modifier List > Vol.
Select
Make a s election. > Mod ifiers menu > Selection Modifiers
> Volume Select
Faces and vertices selected u sing box volumes.
TheVolumeSelectmodifierletsyoumakea
sub-object selection of vertices or faces for passing
up the stack to another modifier or modifiers. The
sub-object selection is completely separate from
the underlying parametric geometr y of the object.
Like other selection methods, Volume Select works
with single or multiple objects.