I'm having a really dumb problem. I'm doing the tire with subdivision surfaces and I've already made some simple materials to assign to them. Problem is that when I try to do the normal right-click on the object I want to assign a material, the option Materials doesn't show those I've done.
I tried to dodge the problem by activating polygon mode, choosing the faces and assign to them, but that results in maya filling the polygon proxy, not the subdivisions it represents.
What am I doing wrong?
(here you can see the actual tire design)