Plugin for Hash Animation:Master V10.0 Beta 9 or higher.
GradientZ is a pack of three plugins:

GradientZ:Texture
GradientZ:Shader
GradientZ:Copy&Paste

The first 2 plugins control surface attributes with gradients.
The 3rd allows the user to copy and paste standard a:m Attributes as well as GradientZ:Texture Attributes.

At the moment only a PC version is available.

This page describes GradientZ:Copy&Paste.
For a description of GradientZ:Texture and GradientZ:Shader go to their page.

Use GradientZ:Copy&Paste for:

• copying & pasting an Attribute
• copying & pasting a GradientZ:Texture
• copying in one A:M version & paste in another
• copying in one A:M instance & paste in another
• copying in one A:M session & paste in another

GradientZ:Copy&Paste is available as a part of the GradientZ pack for $6 through DigitalCandle (see this page).

A:M supports Drag&Drop as well as Copy&Paste for most objects, but not Materials or Attributes.
Whole materials can easily be "copied" by Saving the Material As a file and then loading it again.
But quite often you need to replicate only one attribute of one Material in another one. What you usually would do is replicate the settings per hand, but with many Properties set, this can be very tedious.

Copy
GradientZ:Copy&Paste creates a file on your harddisk (c:\GradientZ-Clipboard.txt) that contains all necessary information to later restore the settings on an other Attribute.

Paste
GradientZ:Copy&Paste loads the file created earlier and applies the settings stored to Attribute.

Supported Parameters for GradientZ:Copy&Paste
Only the basic Parameters are being copied at the moment. They are:

• Input
• Input Transformation
• Input Component
• Component
• Output
• Output Component
• Method
• Factor

The Gradient parameter is not copied (due to SDK limitations). But its easy to copy that seperately by right-clicking the Gradient Parameter and creating a preset.

Supported Parameters for basic Attrributes
Only the basic Parameters are being copied at the moment. They are:

• DiffuseColor
• DiffuseFallOff
• Ambiance
• SpecularColor
• SpecularSize
• SpecularIntensity
• Roughness
• RoughnessScale
• Transparency
• Density
• Refraction
• Translucency
• Reflectivity
• ReflectivityFallOff
• Radiance
• Glow

The Toon Parameters and Shader information is not copied (SDK limitations).

Copy: right-click the Attribute or GradientZ:Texture you want to copy, select Plug-ins>Wizards>Copy as the screenshot above shows.

Paste: right-click the Attribute or GradientZ:Texture you want to paste to, select Plug-ins>Wizards>Copy.

Tip: The effect of the pasting might not be shown immediately, please click into the Material window (this repositions the light) to update it and the Attributes panel.

1.0
initial release

The GradientZ pack is downloadable as a whole, please see the doenload seciton of GradientZ:Texture and GradientZ:Texture.