Color Clipboard Utility

Utilities panel > Utilities rollout > More button > Utilities dialog > Color Clipboard button

The Color Clipboard utility stores color swatches for copying from one map or material to another.

For example, if in the Material Editor, you want to copy a color from a swatch in one level of a material to a swatch in another level (or from another material), there would be no way to do it with drag and drop. This is because you can't have two materials/maps visible at the same time. However, you can drag the color from one material to the color clipboard, switch to the other material, and then drag the color from the clipboard to the swatch in the new material.

Procedure

To copy a color from a swatch to the color clipboard:

On the Utilities panel, click the More button, and choose Color Clipboard from the list.
Open the Material Editor.
Select a color from any swatch in a material.
Drag the color to a swatch in the color clipboard.
A dialog appears asking if you want to copy or swap the material. Choose copy to replace the swatch in the color clipboard with the swatch from the material you selected. Choose swap to swap colors on the Color Clipboard swatch and material swatch.

You can Save and load color clipboard files. The saved file, which is given a .ccb (color clip board) extension, is an ASCII file containing 12 lines of three RGB numbers, so you can easily edit or create your own clipboard files.

Interface

New Floater—Displays a floating clipboard with 12 slots. You can open up as many of these floaters as you want and you can minimize them. If you exit the Utilities panel or select the Close button to exit the Color Clipboard utility, any visible floaters are kept.

Close—Exits the Clipboard utility.

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