Vue only sees INDIVIDUAL parts, so, if the mesh is one piece, it only has 1 material.
that's why I split my models into many parts when exporting them :)

also, Vue doesn't like N-gons and quads very much so when modelling,make the final mesh with tri-sided polygons

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