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Left, no; right, yes.
Files or presets can be relocated by dragging and dropping them into the target folder. By
simultaneously pressing CTRL (PC) / ALT (Mac), selected items will be copied. Presets cannot be
copied onto the hard drive.
In most cases, it will sufce to simply drag the scene or preset into the editor. Its components will be
allocated accordingly (no claim to the completeness of the following list can be made):
Editor View
 Scenes can be opened by dragging them directly into the editor view.
 The presets for objects, materials, tags, render settings, shaders and post
effects can all be added to a scene by dragging them directly into the editor
view. If a shader preset is added, a material with a shader assigned to its color
channel will be generated. In the case of a tag preset, a Null Object, assigned
to the tag, will be generated.
 Bitmaps, videos, material presets and tag presets can be dragged directly
onto an object. In doing this, materials and tags will be generated and assigned
accordingly.
Material Manager
 If you drag a bitmap or a video into the Material Manager, a material with
this bitmap or video in its color channel will automatically be created.
 If you drag a scene into the Material Manager, only the materials contained
in the scene will be added to the existing materials.
 In turn, materials in the image preview can be dragged into the “Presets /
User” folder in order to generate a material preset (any bitmaps loaded must
lie in CINEMA 4D’s search path).
Texture Area (Material Channel)
 Bitmaps, videos and shader presets can be loaded by dragging them directly
into the Material Channel.
 In turn, the texture preview image can be dragged into the “Presets / User”
folder in order to create a shader preset (any bitmaps loaded must lie in CINEMA
4D’s search path).