Assign Material at run time

[anon94900258]

I have a problem for assign the material to object. In that object there are 2 materials.

I tried, renderer.material = material;

and renderer.materials[1] = material;

The first one modify the first material and second one does nothing. Pls help me to change the 2nd material…

[Bunny83]

The problem is that .materials is a property which returns a copy of the material array. All you can do is assign a new array to this property. To change the second material you would do something like:

var Sling : GameObject;
var Material1 : Material;

function OnMouseDown()
{
    if(condition)
    {
        var mats = Sling.renderer.materials;
        mats[1] = Material1;
        Sling.renderer.materials = mats;
    }
}

But be careful, this only works if there are two materials attached, otherwise you can’t just set another material. You would have to create a new, bigger array.

[anon34578815]

Hi there, try this:

var material0 : Material;
var material1 : Material;
-
function Update () {
    if (some input) {
        renderer.sharedMaterials[1] = material0;
    }
    if (other input) {
        renderer.sharedMaterials[1] = material1;
    }
}

Hope this help.