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Shape node with Groups - materials won't transfer - remirez - 01-14-2026 Hi again.  Next issue - i just figure out that we can scatter whole groups via Shape node - instead of linking a mesh i linked a Group object with bunch of meshes inside, it even animates it. All great but i cant get the materials to transfer from original mesh to the cloned one. Shape node has Inherit Material from refence enable. Still wont render with materials. Any idea ?  Thanks. RE: Shape node with Groups - materials won't transfer - tyFlow - 01-14-2026 That's the limitation of using groups in the Shape operator - materials won't be combined...because internally the meshes are all merged and lose their material assignments in the process. RE: Shape node with Groups - materials won't transfer - remirez - 01-14-2026 I see, thank you. I ll use multi sub for this then. Would be great to have that option with groups and materials transferring via Shape node. This is what Max and TyFlow is missing, some simple yet powerful cloning/scattering system. And most ideally if this could clone lights as well and other non-geo objects