koobas.hobune.stream
how to dynamically change materials of the object?
i know how to make materials in the inspector, but i dont now how to dynamically apply them to objects, i know this should be easy, but i am beginner...so any idea or example will be appreciated!
thanks!
Each gameObject which has a material also has a Renderer component, which can be accessed via scripting:
// Set main color to red
renderer.material.color = Color.red;
One thing you should know is that there is a difference between renderer.material and renderer.sharedMaterial: if you change the sharedMaterial, all objects with this material applied change as well; if you change material, Unity creates a copy of the material and thus applies the changes only to the object where you did the changes.
So, if you have a blue material on two cubes, and you use the code above on one of them, you end up with a red and a blue cube. If you use renderer.sharedMaterial instead, both of them turn red. (This took me some time to find out, thus my in-depth explanation :D)
You can find more information on the Renderer component and materials in the scripting manual.
