CopyPaste Studio · Documentation

Slots and shortcuts

What a slot is and how the modifier keys reach them.

What a slot holds

A slot is a folder with a scene file in it: the selected objects, their children, their materials and maps, saved in the version of Max set in Settings › Copy & Paste › Max Save Version. Beside it is a preview picture (the viewport as it was at the copy, or the rendered sample spheres in Material Mode) and a note with the object names, the author, the time, a comment and whether the slot is locked. The Asset Browser reads the note; the HUD shows the picture.

Local slots live in %TEMP%\ES_CopyPaste_Local; remote ones in the folder each network target names. A slot is a folder, so it can be copied, mailed or opened in Explorer like any other.

The keys

The plugin reads the modifier keys at the moment a Copy or Paste button is pressed, or its keyboard shortcut. There are eight combinations, so eight slots on the keys:

The same key that copied into a slot pastes out of it.

Locks

A locked slot is not overwritten by a copy and not cleared by Clear Cache. Lock in the browser. The lock is a mark in the slot's own note, so a locked slot on a share is locked for everyone.

Clearing

Clear Local Cache and Clear Remote Cache in Settings delete every unlocked slot of that kind. There is no archive in the beta: a cleared or overwritten slot is gone, so lock what you want to keep.