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Quick one... what is the "Material ID color", you see it when you open up the Material Editor? Thanks!

When you render the Material ID channel, objects which use this material will have the specified color. Previously, the colors were randomly assigned at render-time.

A related hint too -- if you click the help button in the top of the Scene Manager, you'll see a new docking window (or regular modeless window, depending on Options > Dockable Help Viewer); it has context-sensitive help which can be shown by hovering the cursor over various places in the plugin UI. When there's help available, the cursor will turn into a question-mark; when it does, right- or left-clicking will bring up the help for the item under the mouse. Pretty much everything in the whole plugin has some entry in there, sometimes with quite a bit of detail.

And I'm not saying RTFM or anything here -- I am just guessing, from the question, that you don't know about this yet.

HA .... RTFM... I did read the generic Maxwell manual and watched the videos.... hell I even hovered my mouse- but I did not have that toggled . Nice by the way!

Speaking of RTFM is there a Rhino plug in specific manual for V2?

Sure -- when you click main menu > Maxwell > Help, you should get a small dialog which asks you which manual you want to read: the plugin's or Maxwell's. That choice will only be given if the plugin can locate the Maxwell V2 manual though; if not, then it will just open the plugin's manual.

That's great JD thanks!!

That's a sweet feature.