**DarkEdge, I am very interested in that first idea with UVMapper, have downloaded the classic version, have grouped the polys in one of my reins into 20 sub materials in max and exported to obj, imported into mapper and select all 20 materials...

from there I tried saving model, assigning it to group, export UVs.  but nothing I try changes the materials to groups... do I need the pro version to do this or am I missing a command here?****

thanks

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