Question by WilcoSnel · Jun 27, 2012 at 08:40 PM · material scene change other

Change Material in other Scene by Scripting

I have created a GAME. I created 2 scenes. A MENU and the actual GAME. In the MENU I can change colors with the understanding script.

 var StockCarMats : Material[];
 var StockWheelMats : Material[];
 var Car : GameObject;
 var FLWheel : GameObject;
 var FRWheel : GameObject;
 var BLWheel : GameObject;
 var BRWheel : GameObject;
 var Oranje : Material;
 var Blauw : Material;
 var Zwart : Material;
 var Geel : Material;
 var Wit : Material;
 var Rood : Material;
 var CarTurn : Transform;
 
 var Livery = 1;
 
 function Livery2()
 {
     var CarMats = Car.renderer.materials;
     var FLWheelMats = FLWheel.renderer.materials;
     var FRWheelMats = FRWheel.renderer.materials;
     var BLWheelMats = BLWheel.renderer.materials;
     var BRWheelMats = BRWheel.renderer.materials;
     
     CarMats[0] = Oranje;
     CarMats[1] = StockCarMats[1];
     CarMats[2] = StockCarMats[2];
     CarMats[3] = StockCarMats[3];
     CarMats[4] = StockCarMats[4];
     CarMats[5] = StockCarMats[5];
     CarMats[6] = Zwart;
     CarMats[7] = StockCarMats[7];
     CarMats[8] = StockCarMats[8];
     CarMats[9] = StockCarMats[9];
     CarMats[10] = StockCarMats[10];
     FLWheelMats[0] = Zwart;
     FLWheelMats[1] = Wit;
     FLWheelMats[2] = StockWheelMats[2];
     FRWheelMats[0] = Zwart;
     FRWheelMats[1] = Wit;
     FRWheelMats[2] = StockWheelMats[2];
     BLWheelMats[0] = Zwart;
     BLWheelMats[1] = Wit;
     BLWheelMats[2] = StockWheelMats[2];
     BRWheelMats[0] = StockWheelMats[2];
     BRWheelMats[1] = Zwart;
     BRWheelMats[2] = Wit;
 
     Car.renderer.materials = CarMats;
     FLWheel.renderer.materials = FLWheelMats;
     FRWheel.renderer.materials = FRWheelMats;
     BLWheel.renderer.materials = BLWheelMats;
     BRWheel.renderer.materials = BRWheelMats;
 }
 
 function OnGUI()
 {
 
 if(GUI.Button(Rect(10,90,70,30),"Livery 2"))
     {
     Livery2();
     Livery = 2;
     }
 }

Of course when I start the GAME Scene this changed color is lost. I tried to fix this with another script in the GAME Scene.

 if(GUI_Script.Livery == 2) {
     GUI_Script.Livery2();
     }

This brings up some errors. Makes sense since I pretty much have to change all the variables to static variables. But when I do this to all the needed variables, Unity loses the links to GameObjects and Materials in the Inspector. And then it generates errors becaus of the lost links. And I can't restore the links in the Inspector because they don't show up until I revert all the static var's back to normal variables and delete the second script.

Is this a bug? Is there a maximum to static var's to define? Can't a static var be a GameObject, Material or array? Or is there another solution?

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