Just started using 3DS Max 2014 both in school and at home, and our current project is to make the planet Earth explode. When trying to assign the surface material from the Earth sphere to the PArray chunks, the "Get Material From" button under the Particle Type menu does not work! Before anyone says, "Make sure the object is not grouped" I already know this. And it's not. This is a very basic animation that people have been doing for several versions of 3DS Max, I have watched several you tube vids on how this is done and theyre all the same. I will also mention that this is happening on both our 2014 software at the college and the student license I have at home. So I believe this is either a bug OR there is something different in the PArray menus in this version from past versions that we are not seeing that has to be checked, or unchecked or some other selection box that we are glancing over. Can anyone walk through this process and verify please?