Select by Material - Broken

[Neil FD]

Hi,

I have been using 3ds max 2025 and V-Ray for my usual texturing and rendering. I downloaded 3ds max 2026 last week. I am facing an issue whereby when I select a material in the material in the material editor, right click, then select by material, nothing is selected.

I have tried opening other existing models I have produced, that have previously worked fine with this workflow, however when selecting by material, it keeps selecting a single random object that does not have the sampled material applied.

This is affecting my workflow, as I solely use the select by material to quickly change materials etc.


Please help, Thanks

[ChuckRT]

I can confirm this, its happening with Corona too, maibe this is something from 3ds Max but I have seen bugs comming from plugins.

[ChuckRT]

In the meantime Neil FD you could give it a try to this script thatt someone shared to me in "Stack" Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stac...49006872112461

[DCHA34]

You could also give it a try to this :

[hermit.crab]

Happens in Arnold/Scanline, too. It's surely an Autodesk issue.

[Vizioen]

Autodesk borking features that have been working for 20 some years again. Standard.

As not everyone has Facebook I'll also upload the script here. All in all I find this script handier than having to open material edtitor, "get material', select by material, OK. This script is a lot faster and works with multiple objects with different materials.