Selecting Material Faces On Single Object

[whoopsie]

I'd like to select all faces of a given material on a single object, and don't know of a way to do this easily. Hypershade by default allows me to select all faces on all objects that have a material, but I'm wanting to do a texture replace on a single object, and would like to avoid having to select all the faces with the material by hand.

Any suggestions, or a pointer to an existing script, would be much appreciated.

[drblacksnake]

this could be done by smart use of de/selection methods i.e. LMB[+Shift][+Ctrl].. for the future think of adding a set of shading groups for each object if You are plan to do such shading changes often.

[whoopsie]

QUOTE(drBlacksnake @ 06/14/06, 04:42 PM) [snapback]239920[/snapback]
this could be done by smart use of de/selection methods i.e. LMB[+Shift][+Ctrl].. for the future think of adding a set of shading groups for each object if You are plan to do such shading changes often.

That is possible, but I'm dealing with a file of dozens of objects, all of which must share the same materials (I can't specify them as different materials, for various reasons).

This is also about avoiding attractive nuisance user error: it's really easy to select by material, and then either do a substitution or just delete the faces, and think that you're doing it only on the visible object. Granted, it only takes once to really get paranoid about it, but still.

Anyway, thanks for the response.

[joojaa]

Write a small script! Thsts why teh scriptin eingene i there so that you can tackle problems the developpers didnt anticipate.

I mena thisis the firts ive ever heard anybody says they are using this tactic and failing. Basicaly your attack tactic is a bit bonkers but you CAN accomodate to it if you must. That or change tacttic, i would.