I've now separated the knife blade and handle in wings - and now in carrara I can change the two materials individually - an incredibly laborious way of doing things and a way that will not work with any models but my own and not many of those will suit breaking up like this.

But I now have a shinier blade... not convinced by the handle though.

And another problem - when I tried putting a plane in the scene and putting a mottled black & grey marble texture onto the plane - it rendered grey.

I then inserted an infinite plane, and put "desert beach" material onto it and that rendered - grey.

Very dis-appoin-ted!

Sigh

Ah, just saw your post Dv, tried that but 3ds export from Wings doesn't have the option for 'One group per material' and carrara will not import .obj - which does.

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