It's nothing specific to the tutorial persay. It's just that as I stitched the exports together, I didn't think to take any steps in 3dsmax toward preserving the materials. I didn't use "pick material from object", which would've given me a nice multi/sub-object containing all the material numbers used by goldeneye. Nor did I take care to match the materials as I attached each section. Just simple failure to think ahead
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Just trying to figure out a good method of lighting(on goldeneye, there are almost no light fixtures in facility).