when you have one figure with multiple material zones and you want to copy the material of one zone onto a selection of other zones (instead of just all zones - and while keeping texture maps) then Snarlys EZMat can do that. It's free and worthwhile trying to see if it works in your case.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though