Hey everyone, In my game I need to change an entity’s material when the player get close to it. I have thousands of entities spreading around, so I must use ISystem with Burst for best performance. The issue is - changing shared components like “RenderMeshArray” in ISystem is impossible (hopefull…

there’s a way to change material properties easily using just components: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities.graphics@1.0/manual/material-overrides-code.html it would be better than switching the whole material, if thats an option for you

[image] SillyConesValley: there’s a way to change material properties easily using just components: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities.graphics@1.0/manual/material-overrides-code.html it would be better than switching the whole material, if thats an option for you This is …

If you want to change material and not the material property, you can do this with MaterialMeshInfo. You’ll need to register the material to the EntitiesGraphicsSystem and get its BatchMaterialID. There is an example of how to register in the EntityComponentSystemSamples\URPSamples\Assets\SampleScen…

[image] Tsoj88: If you want to change material and not the material property, you can do this with MaterialMeshInfo. You’ll need to register the material to the EntitiesGraphicsSystem and get its BatchMaterialID. There is an example of how to register in the EntityComponentSystemSamples\URPSampl…

Best way to change material of an entity in ISystem run time?

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MatanYamin May 15, 2023, 6:42am 3

This is actually very interesting! I didn’t know that and I will definitely look in to it, thanks!

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Best way to change material of an entity in ISystem run time?

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