access material that is linked to face

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Hi!

I wanted to ask this to see if it was possible!

Is it possible to get the material that is displayed on a face?

For example, I have a mesh with two materials. If I 'shoot' the mesh, can I see what material was assigned to that face?

Thanks,

-Aj

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If 'shoot' the mesh means colliding with the mesh (detected by OnCollisionEnter or a Physics.Raycast) you can access the component(s) like this:

Graphics material used by the renderer:

collider.renderer.material

The Physics material is also available:

collider.material

AJ did you ever get this to work. I'm trying to cast a ray against an object and return the material that is under the hitpoint. I can get the list of materials associated with the collider and of course the main/first material in the objects material list but not the material under the hitpoint.

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That worked perfectly! Thanks for the heads up, saved us some time in having to split up all of our multiple material objects into separate objects.

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