Hi Brian,

>>>This exercise was to help group the millions of bits--drives me crazy,

The lack of layers/ groups within MoI can be a complete pain/nightmare, certainly when attempting models with many parts. I have nearly given up a few times with some of the models.

What I have been doing, is to export various groups of objects from the model into their own file, this then allows me to import each group into Carrara (or other renderer) and assign a master material to each group on import. It can still be a pain in MoI when attempting to select the various objects, but once a group is made within an export file (I also export the group as a 3dm file) I can delete the objects from scene (and can always import them back if needed. Certainly not the best, but the options are very limited on this.


- Steve