Changing material color between scenes

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1

Hi all, I have been working on a platformer game and was wondering something. So here’s the problem, I created multiple materials for multiple things (one for player, one for foreground, one for traps, one for fire traps and so on) and when I want to change the color for example for all traps I just change color in material and it changes color for all trap objects in the scene, which works great, but the problem is, if I change color of this material in second scene, it will change colors in all scenes. Now the question is, is there any way I can solve this without creating separate materials for every scene, because that would result in excessive amount of materials? This is at the moment the only thing I can think of (except doing it with script by changing colors of material at the start of the scene, which will have to be an option if I don’t find anything else).

I hope I explained it well. Thank you in advance :slight_smile:

2

Might wanna try and just change the material color depending on the loaded scene. by making some sort of materialcolor check in the heirarchy.

public class MaterialColors : MonoBehaviour {
        public int sceneNumber;
        public Material trapMat;
        public Color color1 = Color.red;
        public Color color2 = Color.green;
        public bool materialLoaded = false;
    
        void Update(){
    
       if(!materialLoaded){
                CheckMaterialColor(sceneNumber);
         }

        }

        public void CheckMaterialColor(int scene){

                 switch(scene){
                 case 1: 
                           trapMat.color = color1;
                           materialLoaded = true;
                           break;
                 case 2: 
                           trapMat.color = color2;
                           materialLoaded = true;
                           break;
                 }
        }

then just remember to set the bool materialLoaded to false when loading a scene.