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Duplicate Channel |
Where to find it:
Channels Palette / 
Channels Palette / Right Mouse Click
Main Window / Channels
Main Window / Extension Pack / Channels
Shortcut: (unassigned, use "Edit / Shortcuts" to assign)
Duplicate Channel allows you to create a true duplicate of your channel, with all sharing recreated correctly - both in Channels authored
in the Layerstack and in the Nodegraph.
Mari's Default Copy + Paste way of duplicating a channel so far has not been able to provide this functionality
causing duplication of a channel to involve a lot of manual work recreating shared connections correctly.
Duplicate Channel turns this into a one-click process.
Channel Layers will be linked to original shared channel and channel duplication is avoided.
Channel external sharing of Layers (layers from 3rd channel shared into source channel)
is maintained and direct links to 3rd channel are restored in duplicated channel
Channel Internal sharing of layers from one point of its layerstack to another is kept without
referencing the original source channel.
Mixed or combined Internal & External Sharing is maintained without referencing original
source channel
Channels authored partially or fully in the Nodegraph undergo a series of checks since it is not always apparent what shared parts of a network
should be duplicated.
Nodes used in more than one Channel will not be duplicated. The duplicated channel will retain its connections to the original node chain
that is used in multiple channels
Nodes attached to Radio Nodes will only be duplicated if the nodes are not used in multiple channels.
If a Radio Transmitter Node is somewhere connected to a Channel (either in a Nodegraph only or hybrid Layer/Nodegraph workflow),
creating a channel duplicate will always treat the Radio Transmitter as a shared resource between the two channels.