Editing prefab instance material

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Hi,

I have a character prefab which has a script that changes vert.001 child game object material, this is the hierarchy:

This character prefab’s script has vert.001 as a serialized parameter:

I want to instantiate a few characters and then change each one’s vert.001 material based on the team their are on

simplified code:

 private void SetTeamColorInModel()
    {
        Renderer playerRenderer = model.GetComponent<Renderer>();
        Material customMaterial = playerRenderer.material;
        customMaterial.SetColor("_Color", Color.gray); 
    }

The problem is I got the following error:

Not allowed to access Renderer.material on prefab object. Use Renderer.sharedMaterial instead UnityEngine.Renderer:get_material () CharacterScript:SetTeamColorInModel () (at Assets/Scripts/Characters/CharacterScript.cs:110)

What is the right way of changing a child object material?

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Having the same issue here. It’s weird that there are no answers anywhere.