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MATERIAL MANAGER • 803
Load / Save Material Presets
These options let you load material presets from a list of presets or save material presets (they will be
saved to the Content Browser’s “Presets/User” directory).
Materials can be placed into the “Presets/User” directory per drag & drop. Inversely, materials can be
dragged from this directory into the Material Manager.
Note:
Material presets with bitmap textures placed in their material channels will
only function properly if the corresponding bitmaps can also be found, i.e. if
they are located in the correct CINEMA 4D search path.
Edit Menu
Undo, Redo
Undo undoes the last change, restoring the last change you made to a material. Choose Undo
repeatedly to undo the changes one by one. Redo redoes a change. Select Redo repeatedly to continue
restoring the changes.
Cut
Cut deletes the selected materials from the Material manager and copies them to the clipboard. You
can use the Paste function to retrieve the material from the clipboard, even if you have changed the
active scene (i.e. you can paste between scenes).
Copy
You can quick-copy materials by using drag and drop with the Ctrl key held
down. Drag the copy and drop it at the desired position in the material list.
The rst copy will be called ‘name.1’, the second copy will be called ‘name.2’
and so on.
Deletes the selected materials and copies them to the clipboard. The materials can be copied back from the
clipboard with the Paste function.
Paste
Inserts the materials that are stored in the clipboard (i.e. the last materials that were cut or copied there)
into the active scene.