Characters all look the same

Unity Engine
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I am trying to make it so when the user chooses a different face, helmet, and body texture it will reflect on others machines. When the user picks whatever items they want everyone who comes in looks the same as that user. I am using RPC to apply different materials to the user but for some reason its not working.

[RPC]
    void SetCharacterLook(int face, int body, int helmet)
    {
        playerFaceMaterial.mainTexture = faceTextures[face];
        playerBodyMaterial.mainTexture = bodyTextures[body];
        playerHelmetMaterial.mainTexture = helmetTextures[helmet];
    }

Then in Update I am calling

networkView.RPC("SetCharacterLook", RPCMode.AllBuffered, Variables.faceTextureId, Variables.bodyTextureId, Variables.helmetTextureId);

I tried moving it to start, awake in another rpc call that works, but same thing everytime. Any idea?

Edit: It looks like you can’t edit the material of an object. Since all the people getting created with the same material it changes all the materials. need to figure out how to make an instance of the material and apply it at the start…

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My guess is if “playerFaceMaterial” and the the other two are variables that you have assigned the materials to in the editor, you are modifying the base material which is shared among all of your player models (thus they all change to reflect the new textures).

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Renderer-material.html?from=Material

If you look there, if you use the .material property of the renderer on your player, it will create a clone of the material for that object only, and won’t change the textures of all the others.