Out of curiosity, do the 'big dogs' allow you to select by material because they have material slots that hold the material information and are assigned to the various objects (much like Bryce's family groups) making it easy for the program to locate all the objects with a material, since it's either this one, or this one, or this one..... Whereas Bryce has the material information built into every individual object, so to select by material, the program would have to compare every objects material to the selected one, instead of just grabbing every object with texture #1. xenic101 (Pardon the syntax, I just got home from work.)