I so totally agree cage. This drives me up a wall. I usually just make a ton of .mt5 files rather than copy/paste to avoid this. The .mt5 stops the proliferation of #'s and also plants the nodes at the exact same place every time, also avoiding that super irritating root/node position drift (although this seems editable within the files themselves via pos # #) that can propagate thoughout your materials when copy and pasting. The align nodes script doesn't really fix this. Would love if NetherWorks or someone could come up with a utility to fix these behaviors.

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