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Copy/paste workflow question

Copy/paste workflow question

2005-01-06 - By John Morgan

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To the new person, some XSI functions just don't make sense, such as
creating geometry, texturing (with multiple projections).....and
then...oh yeah, I could use another one of these with a different
texture mapped to it. So using copy/paste, Voila...a duplicate. Upon
trying to apply a new texture to that pre-textured/projected) geometry,
one finds all the textures copied too and are now children of the
original. Attempts to put new textures over old seem to fail miserably.

Obviously there's many things I need to learn. I don't yet know how to
nuke an existing texture and replace it with a new one. Would I do this
in the Explorer? Or Schematic window?

So given that I'm texture dysfunctional, if I wanted 4 of the same
pieces of geometry each mapped with different textures, could I create
desired geometry, copy/paste (to duplicate) the geometry, then cut the
parent/child links that result, then apply a texture and multiple
projections on each without problems?

Thanks!
John

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To the new person, some XSI functions just don’t make
sense, such as creating geometry, texturing (with multiple projections)….
.and
then…oh yeah, I could use another one of these with a different texture
mapped to it. So using copy/paste, Voila…a
duplicate. Upon trying to apply a new texture to that pre-textured/projected)
geometry,
one finds all the textures copied too and are now children of the original.
Attempts to put new textures over old seem to fail miserably.<o:p></o:p>


<o:p> </o:p>

Obviously there’s many things
I need to learn. I don’t yet know how to nuke an existing texture and
replace it with a new one. Would I do this in the Explorer? Or
Schematic window?<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

So given that I’m texture dysfunctional, if I wanted 4
of the same pieces of geometry each mapped with different textures, could I
create
desired geometry, copy/paste (to duplicate) the geometry, then cut the
parent/child links that result, then apply a texture and multiple projections
on each without problems?<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

Thanks!<o:p></o:p>

John<o:p></o:p>

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