I created a file which has the vray sun/sky system. I took a building out of the file by ‘save selected’, and the new Max file still shows the vray sky environment. I deleted the environment, but an environment material still shows in the material listing. It cannot be deleted. It is also not stored in the Environment overrides.
its not in your render settings is it?
nah I checked this one out as well. The material is a phantom, it appears in the ME as if its assigned to an object or a slot somewhere. But it isnt. And you cant change the material in anyway, or delete it.
Its really quite odd.
odd, have you tried resetting the ME slots?
It’s not in the global mat override slot by any chance is it?
cant reset that slot.. its locked in there. Cant delete it.
nope not there, checked everywhere.
send me the scene (or part of)
juju will have to do that.
Its his file and I shouldnt be sharing it.
Well… fixed it.
It was where dynedain said, first time i check thru everything was via VNC to my home machine, and because i use the dark color scheme for max and the global override was unticked it was a black button with very dark grey text and VNC basically smoothed over it.. so i couldnt see it.
Thanks for making me check again dynedain 
:shock: - why was it in the global override… Never once did I touch that (I swear - honestly…)
naughty juju 
My work here is done…