Books_001_d7a8aafe has materials but not mapped

hello. i have tried a few people and other accessories and they work great! i just tried the books under accessories and they import as vray proxy. they have a material assigned to them and if i put a uvw map on them i see the materials, but obviously my uvw map messes up mapping. in the viewport they are white and rendered they are white.

i use 3ds max 2022, vray 5, latest update, GPU rendering. thanks.

oh ps - my system units are set to feet. if that matters? it hasn’t on other assets.

oh. i see what’s happening. it’s a vray prox and i put an edit poly modifier on it to separate some of the books. if i take that modifier off, it renders just fine. i’ll have to check this out further to see if i can manipulate once i get it in the scene.