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Question by Avadora · Sep 05, 2018 at 04:33 AM · scripting problemerrorshadersrenderersetcolor

material.SetColor causing Hidden/InternalErrorShader

First, I'm a beginner, and thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

I'm attempting to change the color of a cube (floor tiles) based on the color status of the player when he collides with them. The code I've written seems to accomplish that, except for one thing. When I press the play button, and run over a floor tile, the cube changes to a bright pink color, and the shader on the object changes from "Standard" to "Hidden/InternalErrorShader". The reason I say that my code seems to work is that if I change the shader back to Standard while in play mode, the cube will display the proper color.

Script:

using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

public class ColorChange : MonoBehaviour {

 bool activeColorWhite = true;
 bool activeColorBlue = false;
 bool activeColorGreen = false;
 bool activeColorYellow = false;
 bool activeColorRed = false;
 bool activeColorMagenta = false;
 public int counter = 0;


 void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collisionInfo)
 {
     Renderer rend = GetComponent<Renderer>();

     if (collisionInfo.collider.tag == "Player" && activeColorBlue == true)
     {
         rend.material.shader = Shader.Find("_Color");
         rend.material.SetColor("_Color", Color.blue);
     }

     else if (collisionInfo.collider.tag == "Player" && activeColorGreen == true)
     {
         rend.material.shader = Shader.Find("_Color");
         rend.material.SetColor("_Color", Color.green);
     }

     else if (collisionInfo.collider.tag == "Player" && activeColorYellow == true)
     {
         rend.material.shader = Shader.Find("_Color");
         rend.material.SetColor("_Color", Color.yellow);
     }

     else if (collisionInfo.collider.tag == "Player" && activeColorRed == true)
     {
         rend.material.shader = Shader.Find("_Color");
         rend.material.SetColor("_Color", Color.red);
     }

     else if (collisionInfo.collider.tag == "Player" && activeColorMagenta == true)
     {
         rend.material.shader = Shader.Find("_Color");
         rend.material.SetColor("_Color", Color.black);
     }

// the rest is an update function that determines which bool is true based on the value of counter

 }
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Answer by Avadora · Sep 05, 2018 at 05:24 AM

I fixed this by changing the color in a different way.

Instead of rend.material.shader = Shader.Find("_Color"); rend.material.SetColor("_Color", Color.blue);

I used gameObject.GetComponent().material.color = new Color(0, 0, 1, 1);

Even though this has been solved, if anybody knows what may have been causing the error I was getting with the previous code, I'm interested to know!

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