koobas.hobune.stream
Display material only in editor
Is there a way to have a material only show in the editor and not ingame but in the editor make it have a certain transparency and texture? Maybe through a customized shader ?
It is supposed to be something like the no collision proxy material in the cryengine: 
The method listed in my answer is a perfectly acceptable way of doing it. The only other way that you can do this is checking against Application.platform:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/RuntimePlatform.html
I need it to check if its ingame or in editor meaning that if I enter game mode it changes the material. What you are suggesting is that it checks if it is running as a standalone build or in the editor itself and then changes the material appropriately.
So here is the code that I eventually came up with:
@script ExecuteInEditMode()
function Start () {
if(EditorApplication.isPlaying || Application.isPlaying){
renderer.material.color.a = 0;
}
else return;
}
Just made a transparent material for the object and attached the script to it.
Preprocessor directives, or sometimes called Macros allow you the ability to separate your code depending on the platform that you're currently using, as well as some other things:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/PlatformDependentCompilation.html
