Okay I am just starting with Maya and am trying to follow a tutorial in a book, it says make a bunch of cubes and texture them with a phong material..

Now I have a bunch of nurbs cubes but when I select all of them and assign a material it ends up assigning them to one face of a single cube.. is there a way to do this to multiple nurbs at once, or do I need to use polygon cubes which I am trying next. Just wanted to post this in case I don't figure it out right away..

Thanks
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