How can I select all objects that are assigned a given material? I could write a script to do this, but I'm guessing there's a simpler way, I just can't find it in the docs.

Seth

In the material palette, you can select a material that was created, and poke ‘Select’ to select any materials that have it.

However, if it wasn't created through the material palette, I'm not sure how…

Does that help?

Seems like you could look at the shop_materialpath primitive attribute and do a string comparison? Group the geometry using an expression to select all primitives that match the correct string pattern?

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.0/expressions/strcasematch [sidefx.com]

Thanks all for the pointers. My current shaders were not created with the material palette, so I may have to go with a scripting solution.