All I want to do is clone a light, and change some parameters.  When I use Control-V to clone, select “COPY”....my new light acts like an instance!  How annoying!

Whatever change I make to one light, happens to the other light!!

Is this a bug????

Does it happen to anyone else, or is mu computer just “special”??!?

TIA

Dean

Max Design 2012 SP2 / Win 7 Pro
NVidia Quadro FX 4800 x 2 (non sli)
HP Z800 - 2 Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz; 36 GB ram

Here it works as expected, Max 2008 64 bit.
Are you sure you take the clone option?
What happens if you Shift-Clone it?

ivan

If this is happening, which it shouldn’t, click the Make Unique icon in the modifier panel, as seen in the attachment.

Don

Max 2012
Windows 7 64 SP1

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The Ctrl-V dialog defaults to “Instance” the first time you use it in a session. If you change it to “Copy” it works (doesn’t create an instance) and it “remembers” that setting for the rest of the session.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.