Assigning Materials

Unity Engine
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I was looking through the forums and documentation, and couldn’t seem to find an answer to this.

I have two similar objects that I want to share the same material. Is there a way to use a material created for one object for another object (with only one material, not duplicating that material)?

I’m sure the answer is yes, but I simply can’t figure out how to do it. It has a location for a texture, but if I add a texture, it creates a new material, and I only want to use one material between the objects.

2

If you’re using one material between two objects, it will have to have the same texture and other properties unless you modify it at runtime via scripting. Does that help?

3

Note that if you modify the material of one object at runtime, Unity creates a new instance of it for you (you can see this in the “* Scene *” section of a material pop-up menu). In order to be truly shared, materials on different objects have to be 100% identical.

–Eric

4

Ok, so I can’t simply assign a material to an object.

Shame.

Thanks for the replies.

5

Unless I read the OP wrong, this is completely possible. Follow the material node back to the project view, where its a little sphere graphic, and drag that onto second model. Now if you mess with the texture or shader both should update.

Im sure thats what I just read-coffee is ozmosising thru my brain as I type :slight_smile:

HTH
AC

6

Well, you can…just drag the material onto any objects you want to have that material.

–Eric

7

gah. I’m dumb. I was trying to drag the materials onto the objects in the project folder, not the scene/hierarchy.

thanks.

8

Dear Eric

You say:
Well, you can…just drag the material onto any objects you want to have that material.

Can you tell me,
how to assign a material to multi object at ones
I trying assign material to multi object form scene/hierarchy
But only one effect…

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At the moment Unity doesn’t have any built-in multi-select feature, so you have to do one at a time, unless you write some kind of editor script.

–Eric