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Hi Everybody,

Here's a little script to copy and paste a full node tree. The root of the tree is the selected node. To use it, just select a node and run the script. The script is mapped to alt + c but you can change this of course. Might be useless 99.99% of the time but I think it's nifty

This only works with release 1.34 and higher.

Here's a visually what the script does:

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-- Creates a copy of tree starting at the selected item. The copy is immediately
-- pasted into the current project and the copied tree is selected.
--
-- @description creates an item tree copy
-- @author      Thomas Loockx
-- @version     0.1
-- @shortcut    alt+c

-- get the current selection
local selection = octane.project.getSelection()

-- only do something if we have a single selection
if #selection == 1 then
    -- create a root graph to copy into
    local copyGraph = octane.nodegraph.createRootGraph("Copy Tree Graph")
    -- copy the full tree into the copy graph
    local copyRoot = copyGraph:copyItemTree(selection[1])
    -- unclutter it a bit
    copyGraph:unfold()
    -- copy it into the scene graph
    local copies = octane.nodegraph.getRootGraph():copyFrom(copyGraph:getOwnedItems())
    -- select all those copied items
    octane.project.clearSelection()
    for i, item in pairs(copies) do
        octane.project.select(item)
    end
end


cheers,
Thomas

Thanks, sometime the simplest scripts makes the most desired. This shows the process that can be used to replicate a node tree and possible link them

it will come surely helpful, thanks thomas
ciao beppe

nice one, thanks Guys!