grouped objects

[trhoads]

I have not been on here in ages, and have not been working in VIZ much either. But I recently bought a package of cars, and today went to use one and found that a few objects in the file are grouped together, and some of them are incorrectly grouped. I need to find out how to fix this problem, either by ungrouping them, or assigning a material just to one piece of the group. I am not familiar with how to do this in VIZ, any advice or help would be great.

 

I am attaching a screenshot, to show the problem. There is one body panel of the car, is grouped with some other parts, and the one body panel is the original color, and I want to change it. I am just stuck, it is over my head, so I turned here for help. TIA.

[Chad Warner]

If they are incorrectly grouped to begin with, what I would do is select the group, then in the menu bar, look for the "group" menu. Go to the "explode group" option, which will get rid of the group. Then you can apply the material as needed to the object. Once this is done, select all the objects that want to be part of the new group, go to the group menu, and choose "group" which will then ask you for a new group name.

[trhoads]

I just gave that a go, and I don't have the option to "ungroup", it is not in bold, and I can't select that.

 

I did find, that there was a separate material in my material editor, that was the same color as the primary car body material, and it is assigned to that piece. weird, yeah. I did find another car in the package that has the same issue. the solution was there, I just had to find it.

 

thanks for the tip, I will remember that for the future.